Re: Strange Process running as root

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Run:  lsof -p 1122

That will list all files, libraries, devices, etc. that are associated 
with that process.  Then you can confirm Jan's explanation.

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jan Kurik wrote:

> 
> David Blomberg wrote:
> > I checked via pstree and this process does not belong to X, any other
> > ideas?
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 15:52, Jan Kurik wrote:
> > ......
>  > ......
> >>>>root      1122  0.0  0.7  3268  908 ?        S    06:19   0:00 -:0
> >>>>
> >>>>is it anything he should worry about.
> >>>
> >>=20
> >>=20
> >>   No, it's OK. You should see, that this proces is a child of your X=20
> >>server and a parent of your desktop proces (perhaps /usr/X11R6/bin/kde).
> 
> 
>    You don't believe me :)) And you are right :)) I was wrong, parent 
> should be kdm or xdm ( or whatever are you using ), not the X server. 
> But it's realy legal proces, part of your X windows.
> 
> 
> 

-- 
duane

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which they avoid.'
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