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Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
- ticojohn
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
I also had never heard of a task called Ruler, so I did a search. This was the only thing I found. I don't know if that is what you have, but it sounds rather unfriendly.
https://www.kitploit.com/2016/10/ruler- ... vices.html
Can't imagine that you would have that program unless you actually downloaded and installed it. I searched through the Debian Stable package list and there is no package by that name. So I'm stumped.
I am not irrational, I'm just quantum probabilistic.
- FreewheelinFrank
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
These should tell you what started it:
By name:
By ID number:
Or just search for rhe package:
By name:
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$ ps -A -f | grep ruler
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$ ps -fp <ID>
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# dpkg -l | grep ruler
Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
@ticojohn It does sound ominous but it seems not to be something installed in my system.
@FreewheelinFrank It terminated after only a couple of seconds, so I can't list it. Dpkg search gives nothing.
Thank you for your help guys, anything else?
@FreewheelinFrank It terminated after only a couple of seconds, so I can't list it. Dpkg search gives nothing.
Thank you for your help guys, anything else?
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
Spooky!
Does it show up randomly or maybe only when you first start the system? Since you are using XFCE you can look at the menu Settings >> Sessions and Startup and maybe determine what might be launching Ruler. Look at the Application Autostart and the Current Session tabs. Maybe you can find a clue there.
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- FreewheelinFrank
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
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$ top -b -c > top.txt
Modified from:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/726333/ ... ut-to-file
Make the terminal full screen because output is truncated to terminal width.
Without specifying the number of iterations this goes on forever, so kill it once you have seen the mysterious "ruler"
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
Good idea from @FreewheelinFrank. I just thought of something that might be faster. Try this. Don't need to be root. Process names are case sensitive.
Assuming it is still running it should show the pid.
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pidof Ruler
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Re: Task called "Ruler" spotted in Task Manager
To be honest I saw it just once and for very short time. No, process is not active any more. I searched entire disk and am pretty sure I don't have any package called Ruler (or ruler) nor any file that contains that word in its name installed. But I think a process name doesn't have to be same as file name. So... mystery goes on...