pranshuparmar/witr
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Why is this running? Trace any process, port, container, or file back to what started it - CLI + TUI.
6 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-12-26 · latest 2025-12-28
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Quick update, witr now supports macOS as well. You can install it using brew - https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr?tab=readme-ov-file#81-...
comment by pranshuparmar · 2025-12-28 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
…if the machine has been compromised (unless by "incident", the author means another thing): https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/tree/main/internal/lin... It should be the last option. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364057
comment by gus_ · 2025-12-27 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
Thank you, yes coming soon - https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/pull/9
comment by pranshuparmar · 2025-12-27 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
Alternatively you can use Nix! :P https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/pull/5
comment by sestep · 2025-12-26 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
It appears to walk up from the process's working directory searching for a .git directory: https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr/blob/1e47bdb8fde179b17...
comment by jackwilsdon · 2025-12-26 · in Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system -
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