[plug] funny process name

[Ben New]

I got:

# ps axwfl

F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND

.....

0     0  1163     1   8   0  2436  652 select S    ?          0:00 /usr/bin/mdkkdm -nodaemon

4     0  1185  1163  10 -10 112868 29164 select S< ?          1:00  \_ /etc/X11/X -deferglyphs 16 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-6cPx2C

5     0  1188  1163   8   0  3456 1644 wait4  S    ?          0:00  \_ -:0                      

4   501  1921  1188   9   0  2416 1220 wait4  S    ?          0:00      \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde

0   501  2018  1921   9   0  1340  300 nanosl S    ?          0:00          \_ kwrapper ksmserver

.....


So it looks like -:0 is definitely something to do with X :-)


P.S. Sorry about empty post ;-\


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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