[CentOS] process show uid not user

Frank M. Ramaekers FRamaekers at ailife.com
Fri Jun 15 17:43:46 UTC 2007


That's what it was...didn't realize that.

Thanks!

Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of James Pearson
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:56 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user
> 
> Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> > One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather
than
> > the user (alpha) on the ps command.  The /etc/passwd file shows:
> >
> > theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash
> >
> > But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid:
> >
> > 500       9041  8864  0 11:20 pts/1    00:00:00 ps -ef
> >
> > Allother active users show the user.  Ideas?
> 
> The username is probably more than 8 characters
> 
> James Pearson
> 
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