[TriLUG] kscand?

[Jeff Bollinger]

Hello all, quick question about a RedHat 7.2 system (2.4.20-13.7 Kernel).
I tried searching Redhat.com, Google, the TriLUG archives, as well as the
man pages and `apropos`, but could not find any information about a
process that I have running called "kscand".  Can anyone explain what this
is/does?

# ps -eaf |grep kscand
root         6     1  0 May22 ?        00:43:39 [kscand]

While I'm asking, what do processes contained in square brackets mean
also?  Some processes appear in these brackets when I run `ps`.

Thanks!
Jeff

Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
University of North Carolina
IT Security Analyst
105 Abernethy Hall
mailto: jeff_bollinger at unc dot edu