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On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel |
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> >> either ;) |
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> > Not here. |
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> This is all I get for bash: |
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> root@smoker / # ps aux | grep bash |
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> dale 7254 0.0 0.0 3044 572 ? S Sep19 0:00 |
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> /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher |
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> root 7704 0.0 0.0 1888 516 pts/0 S+ 15:01 0:00 grep |
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> --colour=auto bash |
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> root@smoker / # |
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> I guess Seamonkey uses it for something. That is also all that shows up |
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> in htop as well. Nothing else bash that I can find. |
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The mozilla launcher scripts spawn an instance of bash which then goes looking |
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for the mozilla binaries and launches them. All perfectly normal. |
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The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I do, |
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but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? |
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