Re: What started moused?

In reply to: Dan Mahoney : "What started moused?"
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From: Christos Chatzaras <chris_at_cretaforce.gr>
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 14:28:28 UTC

> On 1 Jan 2023, at 05:33, Dan Mahoney <freebsd@gushi.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey there all.
> 
> 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?
> 
> -Dan


Check this:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227999