On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:52:40AM -0700, adawes@dawes.org wrote: > I was just doing some debugging on another problem and did a ps -eaf and > saw the following line that looks very suspicious to me: > > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 319 315 0 09:55 ? 00:00:00 -:0 > > It came up when I rebooted the system. I've googled for it and > can't see any traces of it in syslog. Anyone have any idea what this > process -:0 is and how to get rid of it if it is evil? Are you perhaps running X? I believe this process is an xdm child, which manages the primary display (:0). HTH, - Keegan
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