A curious process running on FC5??? 1

[wilville]

Well, okay, the process isn't curious, but I am curious about the process. As far as I can tell it is only showing up on a Fedora Core 5 based machine. It is called bluez-pin and ps -elf shows it invoked as bluez-pin --dbus. I can find no man page for it and no help on it, at least not on this installation, and no explicit mention in the startup scripts, but with a name like that I have to wonder. What is it, is it necessary, and what will happen to me if I kill it?

Feel better asking than just killing it on a running server machine. Sigh...

Thanks,
Wilville
"One day my ship will come in ... and I'll be at the airport."

 

[smah]

I'm pretty sure that I've seen it in FC4 or Mandriva as well. It's for bluetooth. It might be installed by default or possibly with some of the Palm utilities. See

http://www.bluez.org/

 

[wilville]

Ah, yes, and so it is. I had kinda guessed that it was this, but it is nice to have it confirmed BEFORE causing trouble on a running server.

Thanks!!
Wilville
"A waist is a terible thing to mind.