From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 16:25:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBA337B41A for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 16:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from vivi.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@vivi-lb.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.12]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g2M0PGk257984 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:25:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from zathras (zathras.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.117]) by vivi.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ANR50875; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:25:15 -0500 (EST) X-WebMail-UserID: dfisher Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:25:15 -0500 From: dfisher To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002964 Subject: strange process for root login Message-ID: <3C9B5C3C@zathras> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I happened to log into my machine as root today and run a ps. I was just checking so see if I had any run away processes. I noticed that my login was shown as "login -p \^[[s". The process parent is 1, but it still seems strange. I logged in as another user and the process list showed what I would expect for that user. (login -p username). Does anyone know what might be causing this? I'm running 4.5-release. Thanks. --Daniel Fisher To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message