Re: tee -a /dev/null

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100
Randy Orrison <randy@orrison.com> wrote:

> Richard Kimber wrote:
> > When I do a ps, I see a process:
> > 
> > tee -a /dev/null
> > 
> > I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this
> > process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ?  And is it a
> > Good Thing?
> 
> Hard to say what it is...  ps -ef gives the user, process id, and parent
> 
> process id as the first three columns.  Helpful things to know would be:
> 
> What is the parent of the tee process?  What user is running it?

Thanks.  I get

root     11858     1  0 Jul05 pts/5    00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt -ac
-pn -nolisten tcp -audit 4 -fp
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/usr/X11
R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/larabie-straight,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dp
i,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/X
11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :64

hmmmn.  Xprt has no manpage.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/