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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:57:28 +0100
From: Duncan Simpson <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>
To: letters@lwn.net
Subject: Detection of adore

Since oy ufaiil to mention it there are at least two bits of software
that should detect adrore installations. rkscan, avialable from several
of the usul places (for eample packet storm) knows about adore and will
tell you about it.

Checkps 1.3.2 in kill scanning mode should now detect adore due to
two additional tests as to whether a pid really exits (adore "fixes"
the kill system call). This version is proabky avaialble from sourceforge
and is defintely avialable from the checkps CVS repository on sourceforge,
I will update the checkps home page version fairly soon. (It is probably
worht noting that checkps has a test every fice minutes mode, which is
careful to fake the process name---you can choose anything with any fake
argumnet list provided it is not checkps).

BTW aynone installation checkps is expected to understand what they are
doing and there is only a tar ball---pckage management systems would
make the program far too obvious.