Hello all,

I got this little problem. I don't know what happen, but its not stopping work but is more of an FYI. I have this funny process running when I do ps -aef (on RedHat AS3 ) server I get this funny child process.

root 2345 1 .... /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
root 2346 2345 ... -:0

does anyone know what the second -:0 means or what it does? I think this is for X display. But this only seems to happen to some of the machine not all. If anyone knows. I would like to know how to configure to stop it. THANKS

Can you get here all the fields of that process ?

here it is

root 20734 20720 0 Jan18 ? 00:00:00 -:0

that how it looks. Funny

I think this is a orphan process. I think this is a reset of me restart the X server from remote. Any idea?

It is certainly not an orphan since the ppid is not 1. It is a process which chosen to hide it's argument list. Do a "ps -lp 20734".

Perderabo,

Here is the out put of the command:
This pid is different from the orign, becasue I have rebooted the machine. The parent is the /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon (3334). I don't really understand the output. If you could explain, that wouel be great. THANKs in advance.

The code tags didn't help much in lining up the text.

The important field is CMD which is "kdm". Since the process had clobbered its arguments, you couldn't tell much from "ps -f". So now you know what the process is. kdm has forked a child process, but it did not exec another program.

Also pid is the process id of this process. ppid is the process id of the parent of this process. Should the parent die, this ppid will change to 1. That did not happen, so this this processs cannot be orphaned.

That's about all that you can gleen from this ouput, but it does answer a couple of questions that you raised. I'm not a kdm expert so I don't know how to stop this process from coming into existence which seems to be what you want.