How to stop extra `vmtoolsd -n vmusr` pocesses?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • vmtoolsd is always shown as an orphaned process:
 ps -ef | grep vmtoolsd | grep -v grep
usr4   5339     1  0 May27 ?        00:16:19 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr
usr3  64256     1  0 10:49 ?        00:00:31 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr
usr2    8457     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:31 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr
 usr1 25410     1  0 11:28 ?        00:00:22 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr
  • How to stop these extra vmtoolsd processes?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • open-vm-tools

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