Hi, I just discovered that one of my i386 machine running an up-to-date -current shows suspicious shared memory segments. They are present early after boot when i log in. njoly@cixy [~]> uname -a NetBSD cixy.dial.pasteur.fr 4.99.49 NetBSD 4.99.49 (GENERIC) #15: Mon Jan 21 09:59:10 CET 2008 njoly%cixy.dial.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/NetBSD/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 njoly@cixy [~]> ipcs -a IPC status from <running system> as of Mon Jan 21 23:45:05 2008 Message Queues: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPID LRPID STIME RTIME CTIME Shared Memory: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME m 20 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 22 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 24 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 26 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 28 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 30 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry m 32 -1063675643 --r-----r-a 3231291653 wheel 3231291653 wheel -1063675643 0 0 -1063675643 no-entry 22:32:37 no-entry Semaphores: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME Anybody else ? Any idea where to look ? -- Nicolas Joly Biological Software and Databanks. Institut Pasteur, Paris.