[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running LM 7.2, I noticed yesterday, while running ps > to see what was the status of the system, that the > jobs were listed with one startup time (the actual > correct time at which I booted the machine) at some > point and, running ps again a few hours later, the very > same jobs were listed with a startup time some 2 hours > later AND I HAD NOT SHUTDOWNED AND REBOOTED THE MACHINE.
What were the names of some of the jobs? Some jobs are run in a special mode (IIUC, daemon mode?). They are often network / server type jobs. A supervisor task like inetd or xinetd watches the appropriate ports of your machine and, for example, starts a telnet daemon (or process) when it sees traffic on the appropriate port (which I can't recall immediately). I suspect other processes might be programmed to work in a similar fashion. I assume, but don't know that this would be one cause of the behavior you describe. Another could be, for example, if a job is started by cron, or if you are looking at a subprocess of another process -- the main process might run continuously but only occasionally invoke the sub-process. With the names of the jobs in question, someone might be able to be more specific. Randy Kramer BTW: No offense intended, but this strikes me as close to a newbie level question (unless the details that you haven't provided so far indicate otherwise). What made you post it on "expert"? Again, no offense, and I don't consider myself an expert, but I usually try to post my questions to what I think is the more appropriate list, and if that was newbie, "escalate" it to expert only if I don't get a satisfactory response on newbie. Seems to me that was the intent of having a newbie and an expert list, and probably helps to avoid traffic for experts that don't want to be bothered with newbie level questions. (There are very expert people who lurk on the newbie list and answer questions.) If I misunderstand the reason for the two lists, maybe one of the list veterans can provide a different insight?
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