Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:41:44 -0800 (PST) From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com> To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's this task running as ? Message-ID: <20011212114144.26758.qmail@web20606.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3C17E5E1.20927.DAAB0C@localhost>
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A very helpful command to see what you have running on your network is "lsof." "lsof -i tcp" That will show all tcp connections currently listening. Maybe then you can see the user that is running the command. -Donnie --- rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: > Hi - In my inetd.conf I've got ... > > cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/cvs > cvs --allow-root=/usr/local/newrepos pserver > > .... I'm not expert but I thought this meant that > when data arrives at the port > associated with cvspserver then cvs should be run > under the userid root. > > However in an O'Reilly book I have to hand it says > that "the cvs server runs > briefly as root" - how can I find out what user it > runs as once it stops > running as root ? It's not visible via ps as it > starts, does whatever is > necessary and then stops. > > I have a problem which I think may be permissions > related so the owner of the > task is of some interest to me. > > regards > > richard shea. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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