ps oddity
Kevin Kinsey
kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Feb 1 23:27:35 UTC 2007
Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
How exactly?
> Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in
> daemon mode, ps -aux | grep <user> would show me the daemon process. However, now
> that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've
> been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat.
What about `ps -aux | grep program_name`?
KDK
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