Get the cwd of a process?
Adam Vande More
amvandemore at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 04:48:48 UTC 2009
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 29), patrick said:
> > Is there any way to get the cwd of a process? We had the situation
> > recently where a perl script was called from an infiltrated Wordpress
> > installation, but we weren't able to determine which of the hundreds of
> > Wordpress blogs was the source. The ps listing showed:
> >
> > www 63968 2.4 0.2 26092 5008 ?? Rs 5:36PM 93:10.67 ./
> mrf.pl (perl5.8.8)
> >
> > The procfs entry was no help because it does not seem to provide a cwd.
> > The cmdline entry just showed "/usr/local/bin/perl ./mrf.pl".
> >
> > We had to kill the process, and who ever was responsible did a good job
> of
> > hiding their tracks. But should this happen again (and we expect it
> > will), we'd like to be able to find the source.
>
> /usr/bin/fstat will tell you the inode of the cwd, and you can use "find
> -inum" to locate it. You can also install lsof from ports, which will dig
> into the kernel and try and fetch the name itself:
>
> (dan at dan.21) /home/dan> fstat -p $$ | grep wd
> dan zsh 77611 wd / 474264 drwxr-xr-x 533 r
> (dan at dan.21) /home/dan> lsof -p $$ -a -d cwd
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> zsh 77611 dan cwd VDIR 60,504234031 533 474264 /usr/home/dan
>
>
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> Dan Nelson
> dnelson at allantgroup.com
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procstat -f <pid>
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