[plug] funny process name

[Cameron Patrick]

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
|  2567 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/x-session-manager
| 
| Any idea what process 2551 is? And should I be worried?

I have a "-:0" too, pid 629:

	  629 ?        S      0:00 -:0

It appears to be kdm, though, so I wouldn't be too concerned about it:

# readlink /proc/629/exe
/usr/bin/kdm

Since "login shells" are normally prefixed by -, I'm guessing it's a kdm
login session on display :0.

| 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?

Maybe. :-P

Cameron.

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