PS is not showing all processes owned by a user

[Ofloo]

Paul Fraser-3 wrote:
> 
> You su'd to this account, so a new process was spawned under that UID.
> ps works as intended.
> 
> Sorry for the top-post, doing the early morning commute again and this
> mail client on my Nokia is rather stubborn on where I put a reply.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> On 5/30/07, Ofloo <bulk at ofloo.net> wrote:
>>
>> Can someone explain me this !?
>>
>> spark# ps aux | grep psybnc | grep s00p
>> s00p        8777  0.0  0.3 43096  5716  p1- S    Fri06PM   4:30.25
>> ./psybnc
>>
>> spark# su s00p
>> -(s00p at spark.ofloo.net)-(19:56:45)
>>
>> -(~/)-> ps aux
>> USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
>> s00p 67431  4.0  0.1  4660  2828  pd  S     7:56PM   0:00.05 _su (tcsh)
>> s00p 67438  0.0  0.0  1420   908  pd  R+    7:56PM   0:00.00 ps aux
>>
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This came after a complaint from the user, who couldn't kill his process,
because it wasn't visible in his session, and he didn't su !?

Regards, Ofloo
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