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Try lsof -p 15742<br />
It will give more information on the running process
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Try lsof -p 15742
It will give more information on the running process

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You can do an fuser -uc /folder to see whih pid is accessing it.
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You can do an fuser -uc /folder to see whih pid is accessing it.

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-bash is a login shell (see the &quot;-&quot;) in front.<br />
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So it's not a script, but a user login session whose current directory is the &quot;folder&quot; in question.<br />
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Issue &quot;who | grep pts/1&quot; to find the name of the responsible user and their login time.<br />
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Additionally, you can grep for &quot;15662&quot; which is the parent PID of the shell, to (possibly) get further hints.<br />
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wmp
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-bash is a login shell (see the "-") in front.

So it's not a script, but a user login session whose current directory is the "folder" in question.

Issue "who | grep pts/1" to find the name of the responsible user and their login time.

Additionally, you can grep for "15662" which is the parent PID of the shell, to (possibly) get further hints.

wmp

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OK,<br />
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not only the name, but also the host where the login came from, and the time of login ...
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OK,

not only the name, but also the host where the login came from, and the time of login ...

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I was trying to determine which process was accessing a folder in my system and noticed it had a pid of 15742. However, I couldn't determine where this bash script was running (like the location of the bash file or which user is running it) Any ideas?<br />
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&nbsp;ps -ef | grep 15742<br />
root &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;6432 &nbsp;5000 &nbsp;0 22:14 pts/4 &nbsp; &nbsp;00:00:00 grep 15742<br />
root &nbsp; &nbsp; 15742 15662 &nbsp;0 16:25 pts/1 &nbsp; &nbsp;00:00:00 -bash
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I was trying to determine which process was accessing a folder in my system and noticed it had a pid of 15742. However, I couldn't determine where this bash script was running (like the location of the bash file or which user is running it) Any ideas?

 ps -ef | grep 15742
root      6432  5000  0 22:14 pts/4    00:00:00 grep 15742
root     15742 15662  0 16:25 pts/1    00:00:00 -bash

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