[plug] funny process name

[Ben New]

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>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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