root@corum.UUCP (System Administration) (03/24/88)
I have noticed this behaviour on my SCO Xenix 2.1.3 system on a Sperry (now Unisys (:-)) PC/IT system... If i do a ps -fe, several of the running commands show up as garbage under the COMMAND column, whereas if i do a ps -fu<login> the commands come out ok. Observe the following: # ps -fe UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND root 0 0 13 ? ? 12592:28 swapper root 1 0 0 ? ? 0:59 /etc/init root 28461 1 0 Mar 21 co 0:03 -sh news 29145 33 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] root 25 1 0 Mar 11 ? 16:10 /etc/update lp 30 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:02 [ sh scrip ] root 33 1 0 Mar 11 ? 5:17 /etc/cron root 4135 1 0 06:17:59 ? 0:01 [ sh scrip ] root 41 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:01 [ sh scrip ] root 42 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:01 [ sh scrip ] root 43 1 0 Mar 11 ? 0:01 [ sh scrip ] root 4541 1 0 16:03:20 ? 0:01 - tty2A m news 29146 29145 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] news 29147 29146 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] news 29151 29147 0 Mar 21 ? 3:45 ?????G? ?????g?????? u????????du??????w?????~?????????t?????????????????u?????? news 3426 29151 0 Mar 22 ? 0:02 ?????G? ?????g?????? u????????du??????w?????~?????????t?????????????????u?????? news 3427 3426 0 Mar 22 ? 0:10 [ sh scrip ] news 3447 3426 0 Mar 22 ? 0:06 ?????G? ?????g?????? u????????du??????w?????~?????????t?????????????????u?????? root 3448 33 0 Mar 22 ? 0:01 [ sh scrip ] root 3449 3448 0 Mar 22 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] root 3450 3449 0 Mar 22 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] root 3451 3450 0 Mar 22 ? 0:00 [ sh scrip ] root 4562 28461 29 16:24:23 co 0:04 ps -fe # ps -funews UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND news 29145 33 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ sh ] news 29146 29145 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ time ] news 29147 29146 0 Mar 21 ? 0:00 [ sh ] news 29151 29147 0 Mar 21 ? 3:45 [ rnews ] news 3426 29151 0 Mar 22 ? 0:02 [ rnews ] news 3427 3426 0 Mar 22 ? 0:10 [ compress ] news 3447 3426 0 Mar 22 ? 0:06 [ rnews ] The procs under news (which are supposed to be rnews, etc) show up as mostly question marks under the ps -fe command (run when i'm logged in as root, btw). Now, is this a feature (some sort of security feature perhaps?), or a bug, or me plain misunderstanding whats going on? Is there a fix to this? It, offhand, does not seem like reasonable behaviour to me. derek -- Derek Terveer root@corum.UUCP ..!clyde!lily!corum!root
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/28/88)
"ps -fe" works on my Xenix/386 (2.2.1) how about 2.2.1 for the 286. I assume that this is a fixed problem. -- bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa) {uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me