Ubuntu: Constant "dd" process?

[Michael Hipp]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Can someone shine some light on this issue for me?
> 
> ps ax shows the following:
> <snip>
> 3292 ?      Ss   0:00 /bin/dd bs 1 if /proc/kmsg of /var/run/klogd/kmsg
> <snip>
> 
> This is a constant parasite on each Ubuntu (Kubuntu really) I run.
> While I can tell what this might be doing, why?  And why just on Ubuntu?

I dunno the answer, but I checked a couple of my 'Buntoo boxes and saw 
nothing of the sort. Mine are all servers running a minimal install but 
that looks like kernel stuff.

Michael