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