Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:57:41 -0700 From: "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> To: "Fabian Keil" <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps oddity Message-ID: <340a29540702011157w3fef8fe6wb078a9c9e5952631@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070201192751.39e5a32d@localhost> References: <340a29540702011007mcdb45bcya1db8732d78ecd34@mail.gmail.com> <20070201192751.39e5a32d@localhost>
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On 2/1/07, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote: > > "Andrew Falanga" <af300wsm@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > That alone doesn't sound like a particular good reason to me. > > > 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. > > Does ps -aux really no longer list the process, > or does it get lost after the grep? > > Fabian > > > I do not believe so. When I did the same ps | grep command when running the program under my userid, I would see matches for both the program and for the grep. Andy
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