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Re: strange output for command ps



This one time, at band camp, Lindo Nepi said:
> hi all.
> on my debian box (debian 4.0 , kernel  2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 
> 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux )
> when i do "ps aux"  i obtain:
> 121      29199  0.0 22.4 124280 116152 ? SN   17:18   0:00  /usr/sbin/dansguardian
> ^^^^^
> 
> look here, ps shows UID , not username.
> 
> It's normal?

Yes, ps truncates username output when it's longer than 8 characters.
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