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		tripdout on Feb 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Linux Upskill Challenge I got lucky: ps ax showed a python3 process running /home/ubuntu/badlog.py, so I knew to kill that. If it wasn't named so obviously it would've been much harder to find it.

totetsu on Feb 5, 2023 [–]

lsof is list open files. Good for finding things like what process is writing to a log file. You could also go dig around in /proc

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