/sbin/agett

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 07:27:32 UTC 2018


On 15 July 2018 at 18:41, Bill <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to install Tor and now I my mouse cursor indicates that
> something is waiting for input.  I executed ps  to see what is causing it
> and I find a utility running called /sbin/agett.  I ran the man pages and
> it seems to be a legitimate linux utility but I still am uncertain.  Is
> this needed or is somehow related to the recent Tor installation?
>
> I don't like something running in the background waiting for some unknown
> input as indicated by the mouse cursor being a circle that is rotating.  If
> it is unnecessary, should I get rid of it or simply disable it?  Also, I
> looked in the repository for a Tor browser, how do I browse the internet
> using Tor and access normally hidden websites.
>

Which version of Ubuntu are you using/
How did you install tor?
What do you see if you run
apt-cache policy tor

Colin
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