Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:27:51 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps oddity Message-ID: <20070201192751.39e5a32d@localhost> In-Reply-To: <340a29540702011007mcdb45bcya1db8732d78ecd34@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540702011007mcdb45bcya1db8732d78ecd34@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_12.Sry8CcR=SMrFAsFFRovL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "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 dae= mon > mode, ps -aux | grep <user> would show me the daemon process. However, n= ow > 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 --Sig_12.Sry8CcR=SMrFAsFFRovL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFwjEnBYqIVf93VJ0RAn3aAJ4huji3E/NpsIk+iJ4Sn4xyKPCHlgCgjyrc lw8EqfysuBDKtUzMMC8KhyU= =5Dib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_12.Sry8CcR=SMrFAsFFRovL--
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