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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:44:34 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Brian Sobolak" <brian@planetshwoop.com>
To:        "Glenn McCalley" <techlist@bnetmd.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to tell what ran what
Message-ID:  <46981.4.17.250.5.1140036274.squirrel@webmail.psys.org>
In-Reply-To: <002601c6326e$da0fd5a0$6601a8c0@bnetmd.net>
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Glenn McCalley wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Björn König" <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> To: "Glenn McCalley" <techlist@bnetmd.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: how to tell what ran what
>
>
>> Glenn McCalley schrieb:
>>
>> > Is there a way to find out -which- -process- calls another process?
>>
>> Each process is associated with a parent; look at the ppid column:
>>
>>    ps axo user,pid,ppid,command
>>
>> Björn
>>
>>
> Thanks, I stated the question poorly.  My fault.
> Is historical info available and is it available by file name?
>
> I trying to find out (for example) what (unknown) program ran another
> (known) program between 0900 and 1000 yesterday - something like that.
>
> I've got a customer sending our emails that he shouldn't - I don't know
> which customer it is.  The program that sends the mail is running as a cgi
> so it all shows up as user "nobody".
>
> If I can get a list of what programs, path and file name, called sendmail
> over (say) the last 24 hours, one of them should jump off the page with an
> unreasonable level of activitiy.
>

The web server logs don't tell you anything in the URL data?  A CGI script
usually has some parameters which might provide some assistance.

brian


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