minilogd is that a service that I need?

[SupermanInNY]

Just curious,
The other day I had a huge cpu load and I suspect some kind of an attack was in progress.
I stopped httpd and mysql and it went away.
I was advised to kill the minlogd process to help with reducing the load.
I ran:

killall -9 minilogd

Problem is, I didn't check to see if this service was running to begin with, and if it was, did I kill something of great importance?
Do I need to start it up?
Any commands with swithes to get it started if needed to begin with?

Thanks,

-Alon.

 

[resolveit]

Hi,

minilogd does not run on any of my servers with DA installed.

It could be an operating specific tool but on RedHat it's not required to run DA.

Regards,
Onno Vrijburg

 

[SupermanInNY]

I'm glad to hear that.
In my haste I didn't even check to see if it was running before I "killed" it,. so I didn't know if this was runnnig earlier.

I'm using whitebox 3, and I have another server with similar install,. and in it,. I also didn't see that,. so I guess I killed nothing ).

Thanks,

-Alon.