htt daemon eating up my internet connection

[Ben Scott]

On 11/22/05, Paul Dussault <pdussault at gwi.net> wrote:
> First of all, what's htt for? and where is it being started?

  Lots of good info so far.  I'm gonna throw in some general
techniques "for future reference".

  In theory, all commands should have a manual page.  Alas, this is
often not the case, but "man htt" is worth a shot.  You can also try
"info htt" in case it's a GNU program.

  Log in as "root" and type "which htt" to find the "htt" executable
in root's PATH.  Most daemons will be found that way.  If "which" does
not find anything, try this:

	grep -Elr \\Whtt\\W /etc/rc.d/init.d

That will search all the service control init scripts for anything
that mentions "htt".  The "\W" is a special pattern that means
"non-alphanumeric character".  That keeps grep from finding "httpd"
and the like.  They are double-escaped (\\) to keep the shell from
interpreting the backslash.

  Once you've got the file, you can query RPM to find out what package
owns it.  I don't have an "htt" daemon, but let's say I was wondering
about "rhnsd" instead.  So:

	$ which rhnsd
	/usr/sbin/rhnsd
	$ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/rhnsd
	up2date-4.3.19-1.WB1

  From the above, I can see that the "up2date" package owns "rhnsd". 
Next, I can ask RPM for information about that package:

	$ rpm -qi up2date

  That will give you all sorts of information about the package,
including a summary of what it does.

  Hope this helps,

-- Ben "Give a man a match..." Scott