From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 23:18:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6118216A44B for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:18:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A890343D49 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:18:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k1FNIGRq078005; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:18:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:18:16 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20060215231816.GI70956@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1140027060.83368.11.camel@r4.agava-guns.domain> <20060215194204.GC70956@dan.emsphone.com> <20060215215608.GA55676@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060215223432.GH70956@dan.emsphone.com> <20060215225421.GA56725@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060215225421.GA56725@xor.obsecurity.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Ivan Kolosovskiy , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:18:19 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:34:32PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said: > > > I often see this too. For example: > > > > > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND > > > 5357 kkenn 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0:00 0.35% xpdf > > > > > > > ps -waux | grep xpdf > > > kkenn 5357 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?? RE Sun08PM 0:00.20 [xpdf] > > > > > > > ps lp 5357 > > > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > > > > That syntax should have worked... Try a plain "px axl | grep xpdf" > > instead. > > You're not mistaken, it's just not there. > > > ps axl | grep xpdf > 1000 5357 78788 2 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.20 [xpdf] A wchan of "-" doesn't look good; I have no idea what that process might be doing. You know what? I have some of these processes on my system too :) 0 14033 395 591 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.00 [sh] 0 33631 395 591 96 0 0 0 - RE ?? 0:00.00 [sh] -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com