From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 20 18:27:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from presley.cybertrails.com (presley.cybertrails.com [162.42.150.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45B4D14D21 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 18:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn1@cybertrails.com) Received: (qmail 25859 invoked from network); 21 May 1999 01:43:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ginger) (162.42.15.249) by presley.cybertrails.com with SMTP; 21 May 1999 01:43:38 -0000 From: "george vagner" To: "Christopher J. Michaels" , "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: strange ps output for su Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:27:49 -0700 Message-ID: <000701bea329$233030e0$0300a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <000001bea327$2e4b6e60$6400000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mine does same thing! $ ps -auxw | grep su $ su Password: www# ps -auxw | grep su root 4359 0.0 0.5 456 336 p0 D 6:26PM 0:00.06 -su (csh) root 4362 0.0 0.5 456 336 p0 RV 31Dec69 0:00.00 -su (csh) www# > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Christopher J. > Michaels > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 6:14 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: strange ps output for su > > > Ok, I give up... I have no idea what this means... > > 9:09pm [root@cartman] /usr/local/etc -> ps auxw | grep su > root 19247 0.0 1.4 592 888 p0 RV 31Dec69 0:00.00 > -su (tcsh) > root 19200 0.0 1.4 592 888 p0 D 9:05PM 0:00.16 > -su (tcsh) > > each time I execute this commant the above su's PID increments to the next > available PID, so it appears to be a transient thing. But what > IS it? and > it's been running since December 31st, 1969??? ;^) > > This is probably my ignorance showing through, but it's just confusing as > all heck to me. Can anyone explain this? > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message