Re: tee -a /dev/null

[Randy Orrison <randy@orrison.com>]

Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy 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.

Sounds like X print server...  Unfortunately, I'm not using X or 
printing on my boxes, so I can't help any further.  Anyone else?

Randy