Re: really dumb question, what is AIFd ?

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

From: Smith, Lisa <LSmith edirect com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: really dumb question, what is AIFd ?


: USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
: ...
: root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Mar30   0:00 [AIFd]
: root       351  0.0  0.1  1172  288 ?        S    Mar30   0:05 syslogd -m
0
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: this is redhat 6.2 on a dell poweredge 2450 machine.
: How do I find out more about this process? or what package it comes from?
: Sorry if this is a basic or dumb question...

Hmm, no one has apparently replied yet.  I was curious as I've never heard
of AIF.  A search on http://www.google.com/linux turned up Audio Interchange
Format (or something like that) and some other strings containing AIF but
none that seems to explain an AIF daemon.  That may mean it's not a regular
package..

First, there's always the optimistic 'man -k aif'.

Then there's another route:  Try to find the AIFd executable:

# find / -name AIFd
# find / -name aifd

When you find it, perhaps in the sbin directory, see if it was installed
using RPM:

# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/AIFd

And then get information on that package, say aifd-xxxx

# rpm -qi aif

You can also see if maybe there is a package with 'aif' in it like this:

# rpm -qa | grep -i aif

... then do an 'rpm -qi' to get some detail on the package.  You could even
read through the rpm -qa output.

If it wasn't installed using RPM, then it will be harder (aside form Perl
modules, I really try to avoid installing tarballs).  You may find something
by investigating the initscripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d or looking in the
documentation directory (whihc, for 6.2 was /usr/doc).

Incidentally, if I am not mistaken, the fact that it is in brackets in the
ps output means that it has been swapped to disk.  So one implication is
that at the time you did the ps it wasn't active and perhaps hadn't been for
a while.  FWIW, that also means that if there were any interesting command
line parameters, they wouldn't appear on the ps output.

Good luck,

-Alan Mead