{"id":4420,"date":"2019-11-22T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:19:03","slug":"what-is-repmgr-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2019\/11\/22\/what-is-repmgr-on-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"What is repmgr on a Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I now have an <em>IT-managed<\/em> Mac at work, which means that I had to cede a little control and allow weird stuff I don&#8217;t understand to run on it.<\/p>\n<p>I was disturbed today to find a root-owned process, <code>repmgr<\/code>, using a bunch of CPU. Some quick Googling suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/2ndQuadrant\/repmgr\">repmgr is for Postgres replication<\/a>, which is problematic because I don&#8217;t use Postgres and don&#8217;t have it installed.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that there&#8217;s another, unrelated <code>repmgr<\/code>, though! <code>\/Applications\/Confer.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/repmgr<\/code> is the path to the running executable for me. <strong><code>repmgr<\/code> is also the name of a component of Confer \/ Carbon Black<\/strong>, some sort of enterprise security software for Macs. I haven&#8217;t had the chance to figure out exactly what it does, but based on some of the strings in it, I suspect it&#8217;s short for &#8220;Reputation Manager.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have an IT-managed Mac at work, which means that I had to cede a little control and allow weird stuff I don&#8217;t understand to run on it. I was disturbed today to find a root-owned process, repmgr, using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2019\/11\/22\/what-is-repmgr-on-a-mac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}