[Techtalk] rmserver, should I be worried?

[Rebecca J. Walter]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 15:05, Jeannette wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, Carlo!
> 
> Unfortunately, which, locate, slocate and "find / -name rmserver" (run as
> a regular user and "su -") all failed to turn up a match.
> 
> I just checked on the machine where I read my mail, and I see the same
> process there, also using 98% of CPU and a total of 240 minutes (so I
> don't have to wait for it to happen on my box again), so I said
> ps -ef, and it shows the full path as /usr/local/pnserver/Bin/rmserver,
> but rpm says this file "is not owned by any package".
> 
> Any other suggestions for me to find out what it is and if it should be
> doing so much?


I am not as experienced as most of the chix here, but this would set off
big warning flags for me.  If it is your box and you didn't install it
and it doesn't belong to a package, are you _SURE_ your box hasn't been
hacked?  Have you checked the logs for unusual activity of any kind?