On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 13:37 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wei Chen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just found that the famd process is now running with my user-id: > > > > [snip] > > root 2987 0.0 0.1 4924 848 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/sshd > > root 2993 0.0 0.1 7044 776 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/winbindd > > root 3049 0.0 0.1 7044 704 ? S Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/winbindd > > wchen 3053 0.0 0.3 4040 2036 ? Ss Apr12 0:03 > > /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 > > statd 3064 0.0 0.1 2692 872 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /sbin/rpc.statd > > root 3074 0.0 0.0 3508 312 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd > > ntp 3093 0.0 0.2 5072 1164 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/ru > > daemon 3125 0.0 0.0 1828 304 ? Ss Apr12 0:00 > > /usr/sbin/atd > > [snip] > > > > Etch box. Just rebooted several hours ago. Any clue? Thanks in advance. > > > > After rebooting it again, I found famd still ran as me. Is famd supposed > to behave like this? I never think a daemon that starts from init script > should change itself to a normal user privilege. And another etch box of > mine has famd running as root correctly. Is this a bug? Yes, why would you have it run as root? FAM is a userland process for monitoring YOUR files YOU have open. I have FAM installed on a server of mine, when I connect using IMAP, it runs as my user. FAM == File Alteration Monitor. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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