[plug] funny process name

[James Devenish]

In message <134830-22003923034221462 at westnet.com.au>
on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:42:21AM +0800, Stephen Boak wrote:
> I just ran 'ps ax' on my Debian Woody box, and saw this:
> 
>  2550 ?        S      0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
>  2551 ?        S      0:00 -:0

(-:0 doesn't ring a bell off the top of my head.) Try adding an 'f'
option to ps, or using pstree, to investigate the parentage of that
process (eg: `ps afuwx | less`). Note that processes can change their
displayed name once they are running (mail and FTP daemons are classic
users of this trick). Perhaps it is something to do with X (though odd
that its PID is apache+1).

> P.S. I've tried google, but it doesn't search for "-:0" very well. Is
> there any way to force it to search for the actual quoted characters?

Let us know if there is :-)


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