So I get this each time I start up or shut down "osascript wants to make changes"

[pm-r]

If you get info on the running process (select it and click the "i" icon in the toolbar) you can see what process started it and who the owner of that process is.

Good point Mike, and I was going to mention doing just that in my previous post, but it seemed that the OP already quit the process which made that option rather invalid. But still a good method to use to try and discover the source of an actual Unknown process.


- Patrick
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[rachalmers]

I tried that and put the info output into about my third post guys. It didn’t show anything useful.


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[pm-r]

If you get info on the running process (select it and click the "i" icon in the toolbar) you can see what process started it and who the owner of that process is. That would have given you a good idea as to how it got going, and my be why.

I tried that and put the info output into about my third post guys. It didn’t show anything useful.

Quite true, unless the activity using the "i" option includes the "Open Files and Ports" tab, it's pretty much useless as to what the process might belong to.

And I don't know where or or how one could find such information.


- Patrick
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[Ratsima]

In Activity Monitor make sure you’re viewing "All Processes". When you click on the "i" icon you’ll see the parent process and the owner. Click on the parent process and you’ll see the parent of that along with the owner.

Right now I’m running "top" in a terminal session. The parent is Bash and he user is root. The parent of Bash is login and the user is mnewman (me). The parent of login is Terminal and the user is root. The parent of Terminal is launchd and the user is mnewman.

You have to dig a bit but eventually you may find who or what initiated the process you’re interested in.


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[pm-r]

In Activity Monitor make sure you’re viewing "All Processes". When you click on the "i" icon you’ll see the parent process and the owner.

Unfortunately, as I said previously, about option or the parent process is not always available in all activities, even when vieing "All Processes".

And...

You have to dig a bit but eventually you may find who or what initiated the process you’re interested in.

But how long does the average user want to spend scavenging for what may be the cause of the process or activity???

Not very I would suggest.


- Patrick
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[Ratsima]

So I get this each time I start up or shut down "osascript wants to make changes"

Well, there's always pstree if you don’t think Activity Minitor is reliable:

-+= 00001 root /sbin/launchd
 |-+= 00543 mnewman /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_122910
 | \-+= 02416 root login -pf mnewman
 |   \-+= 02417 mnewman -bash
 |     \--= 02519 root top

Unfortunately this forum truncates white space so the tree effect is messed up.



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