On 12/09/2011 03:37, Devin Reade wrote: > Getting back to the original question, it is a feature of mysql (not > of CentOS per se), but there's nothing that stops other (C) programs > from doing something similar. Shortly after startup, a programmer can > set things up so that command line arguments (or in this case one of > them) is hidden from anyone from viewing the process table. You can even do this in something like Perl, here you just modify '$0'. John. -- John Beranek To generalise is to be an idiot. http://redux.org.uk/ -- William Blake -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4320 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110913/7f6af023/attachment-0005.p7s>