pstree shows a process as a child of init. However, I can't find anything using `initctl -list` and it doesn't appear in the /etc/init.d directory.
Any ideas where I can find the file that started this process? Alternatively, is it possible the process wasn't started by init, but somehow ended up appearing that way to pstree?
I'm on Linux Mint 17.1
Posted Jan 8, 2019, 1:25 AM UTC
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Any process whose parent is no longer running is inherited by init, so it could have been started by anything.
That explains it! Thank you.