On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 16:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote: > > > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> > >>>> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel > >>>> either ;) > >>>> > >>> Not here. > >>> > >> This is all I get for bash: > >> > >> r...@smoker / # ps aux | grep bash > >> dale 7254 0.0 0.0 3044 572 ? S Sep19 0:00 > >> /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher > >> root 7704 0.0 0.0 1888 516 pts/0 S+ 15:01 0:00 grep > >> --colour=auto bash > >> r...@smoker / # > >> > >> I guess Seamonkey uses it for something. That is also all that shows up > >> in htop as well. Nothing else bash that I can find. > >> > > > > The mozilla launcher scripts spawn an instance of bash which then goes > > looking > > for the mozilla binaries and launches them. All perfectly normal. > > > > The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I > > do, > > but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? > > > This one: > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > Looks like bash. ;-) I assume this is the default because I have never > changed this file. Is there something screwy with my system?
Beginning to look that way. I tried using konsole this morning and here is what I got: 17423 pts/3 Sl 0:00 konsole 18951 pts/4 Ss 0:00 \_ /bin/bash 2704 pts/4 R+ 0:00 \_ ps axf I have no idea why you don't get the same result.