Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:27:27 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Andrew Falanga <af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ps oddity Message-ID: <45C2775F.9090404@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <340a29540702011007mcdb45bcya1db8732d78ecd34@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540702011007mcdb45bcya1db8732d78ecd34@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > A couple of months ago I wrote a daemon process that opens up > connections on TCP and listens for incoming data (that ultimately ends up in a database). > Now, when I was writing it, I was debugging and what not under my own user > id. However, the program now runs as root because it's started > automatically when the system comes up at boot time. > How exactly? > Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in > daemon mode, ps -aux | grep <user> would show me the daemon process. However, now > that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've > been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat. What about `ps -aux | grep program_name`? KDK PS > Random .sig, NP. -- You are an insult to my intelligence! I demand that you log off immediately.
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