This doesn't look good –- Cam Scanner---- listed under System Activity
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Noticed this recently. Please Advise.
last pid: 21623; load averages: 0.01, 0.03, 0.04 up 0+01:38:15 20:08:44
82 processes: 5 running, 63 sleeping, 14 waitingMem: 232M Active, 438M Inact, 125M Wired, 97M Buf, 1058M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M FreePID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND
11 root 155 ki31 0K 8K RUN 82:00 99.66% [idle]
7492 root 24 0 83724K 27760K piperd 0:00 1.27% php-fpm: pool lighty (php-fpm)
24746 root 52 20 10592K 2024K piperd 0:01 0.10% /bin/sh /var/db/rrd/updaterrd.sh
45965 root 20 0 522M 256M nanslp 2:33 0.00% /usr/local/bin/snort -R 51392 -D -l /var/log/
0 root -16 0 0K 96K swapin 0:43 0.00% [kernel{swapper}]
1655 root 20 0 358M 91532K bpf 0:22 0.00% /usr/local/bin/snort -R 49363 -D -l /var/log/
45965 root 20 0 522M 256M bpf 0:21 0.00% /usr/local/bin/snort -R 51392 -D -l /var/log/
1655 root 20 0 358M 91532K nanslp 0:11 0.00% /usr/local/bin/snort -R 49363 -D -l /var/log/
0 root -92 0 0K 96K - 0:10 0.00% [kernel{em0 taskq}]
12 root -92 - 0K 112K WAIT 0:10 0.00% [intr{irq21: rl0 acpi0}]
15456 root 20 0 17244K 7172K kqread 0:05 0.00% /usr/local/sbin/lighttpd -f /var/etc/lighty-w
4 root -16 - 0K 16K - 0:04 0.00% [cam{scanner}]
12 root -60 - 0K 112K WAIT 0:03 0.00% [intr{swi4: clock}]
5 root -16 - 0K 8K pftm 0:02 0.00% [pf purge]
246 root 20 0 83724K 20636K RUN 0:02 0.00% php-fpm: master process (/usr/local/lib/php-f
12 root -88 - 0K 112K WAIT 0:01 0.00% [intr{irq22: atapci1}]
19 root 16 - 0K 8K syncer 0:01 0.00% [syncer]
10887 root 20 0 10132K 1788K select 0:01 0.00% /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger.cpfSense is 2004 - 2015 by Electric
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Googling "freebsd cam" came up with some scsi controller thingamajig.
You could try dancing naked in front of your pfSense device and see if the "cam" process reacts.
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Thank-you. I understand. I googled camscanner before I posted my question. It is quite a program used for lots of things including spyware. My belief is this is not a legitimate process that is part of a normal pfSense install. I am for someone to look at the above processes and correct me if I am wrong. Also nothing referencing this process appears in the forums. Thank you for reading this
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https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cam&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+10.1-RELEASE
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Yeah, CAM has been the *nix disk access module since forever.
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…. Also nothing referencing this process appears in the forums.
site:https://forum.pfsense.org CAM
As already explained above, CAM is a low level FreeBSD tool. You can see some traces in your DMESG log file:cat /var/log/dmesg.boot | grep 'CAM' (aprobe0:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error (aprobe0:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: Command timeout (aprobe1:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error (aprobe1:ata0:0:1:0): CAM status: CCB request completed with an error
It can be noisy when when FreeBSD has issues with your drive(s).
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Thanks to all for the help…..
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Yes, that's just part of the FreeBSD kernel, the SCSI/ATA subsystem. It's normal.
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Well, technology, more often than wanted, makes me a bit paranoid. Why is it whenever you jump to conclusions, those conclusions are rarely good?