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PBS Process Warning?

hello,


so i have been noticing the PBS process starting up at random times, including when I am not using word, haven't used the cut & paste option, and haven't been doing anything else that would launch it in the activity monitor. everytime i try to quit it, it won't let me so I have to do a force quit, at which point it sends up the following message:


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as i understand it, PBS is only a peripheral process not an essential one, so why is a log out warning attached to it? quitting it will log me out from what?


i ignored it, forced a quit and nothing bad happened, so its behavior seems kind of shady. i know everyone says macs dont have a lot to worry about in terms of viruses and hacking etc, but that was before all the interlinked devices became such a common everyday reality....

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 17, 2013 2:44 PM

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Jun 17, 2013 3:08 PM in response to rndes

PBS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PBS(8) NAME pbs -- general helper tool SYNOPSIS pbs [-debug] [-dump_pboard] [-dump_userdefs] [-flush_pboard] [-flush_userdefs] [-existing_languages] language1 language2 ... DESCRIPTION pbs is an agent for the Services menu. It scans for and vends available Services, to populate the Ser-vices Services vices menu. pbs is NOT related to the pasteboard. The pasteboard is managed by the pboard agent. pbs normally runs the first time Services are needed in any login session. You may run it manually for debugging Services. If run without any options, pbs will scan for changed Services, cache them along with their English localization on a private pasteboard, and immediately update the Services menu in all running apps. It will also log about any invalid Services declarations in Info.plist. This is use-ful useful ful when developing or testing Services, because it immediately applies any changes. ServicesMenu.strings files for a localization are loaded only when an app running under that localiza-tion localization tion shows the Services menu. You may pass pbs language codes (e.g. "fr") to cause it to load that localization immediately. You may also pass the flag -existing_languages to reload already loaded localizations. pbs has additional options that are useful for debugging, in particular the -dump_pboard option. The complete list of options is: -debug Output debugging information regarding what pbs is doing. -dump_pboard Prints the private pasteboard containing the current Services information. You can use this to determine which apps are providing Services and where they are located on the filesystem. -dump_userdefs Prints the userdef cache of Services information. pbs caches Services information in its userdefs to avoid scanning the entire system every boot. Changed apps are still detected via FSEvents, so there is no need to flush the userdef cache when installing a new Service. -flush_pboard Erases the private pasteboard containing Services information. The next time the Services menu is shown, pbs will scan for changed Services and update the pasteboard. -flush_userdefs Erases the userdef cache. -flush Equivalent to -flush_pboard and -flush_userdefs, entirely resetting pbs. The next time Services information is needed, pbs will do a complete rescan for apps vending Services, and read their plist. Note: this rescan may be very expensive! HISTORY First appeared in NextStep. pbs has historically had responsibilities that ranged from pasteboard man-agement management agement to Unicode glyph generation, but now it only does Services. Mac OS X June 1, 2006 Mac OS X

Jun 21, 2013 11:43 AM in response to ds store

also why is that log out warning coming up? i had to reset my wireless router recently and when i did a diagnostics request it showed that there were 2 macs connected to my router when i only have one. shortly after i did a refresh and it showed only 1.


and when i log in to terminal it shows a different time and date for logins into console when i am not logged into the console. is this normal?

Jun 21, 2013 11:49 AM in response to rndes

PBS is different for different OS X versions and my results are from the Apple Developer Library which I have access.


Your man pbs is likely showing according to your OS X version.



also why is that log out warning coming up? i had to reset my wireless router recently and when i did a diagnostics request it showed that there were 2 macs connected to my router when i only have one. shortly after i did a refresh and it showed only 1.


and when i log in to terminal it shows a different time and date for logins into console when i am not logged into the console. is this normal?


I don't know, perhaps you should review your security procedures and wipe all software and replace with verified sources.


It's all I can suggest.

PBS Process Warning?

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