Re: What started moused?

Ian Smith wrote:
> On 1 January 2023 2:33:12 pm AEDT, Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:
>  > Hey there all.
> 
> HNY Dan,
> 
>  > On a 12.3 system I have sitting in a datacenter, doing mostly nothing
>  > but DNS service, I saw that I have moused running.
>  > 
>  > As this is a headless machine, and I think even the IPMI isn't super
>  > usable, there's no reason to be running this.
>  > 
>  > ps claims it's at:
>  > 
>  > root    958   0.0  0.0  11068   2356  -  Is   18Dec22      0:00.00
>  > /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/ums0 -t auto -I /var/run/moused.ums0.pid
>  > 
>  > And there are no moused_enable lines in /etc/rc.conf.  Service moused
>  > onstop gives me:
>  > 
>  > /usr/home/danm # service moused onestop
>  > moused not running? (check /var/run/moused.pid).
>  > 
>  > I don't see anything in the manpage about things like "getty"
>  > starting this on the system console.
>  > 
>  > Can someone englighten me?
> 
> My guess, repeat guess, is that someone has plugged in a USB mouse (or KVM), and /etc/devd.conf has dutifully matched "ums[0-9]+"?
> 
> In which case surgery on devd.conf may be in order if undesirable. Does ps show a ukbd0 as well?

Or moused_nondefault_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf.