Re: How to let my application run after logout?

[Jaana Jarve]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, LordX wrote:

> Haehnel and Adams:
> Thanks a lot for your reply and help.
> In fact what I want to do is use "john" to crack the passwd file of my
> computer to see if my users have set it safe.
> After check again, I find your ways about let the program run background is
> good. And after logout and login back again,  checking with top show that it
> is still run happily there. But I don't know why run "ps -a " will not give
> me this effect. It is strange that it shows process such as X are running

Because "ps a" is NOT SUPPOSED to show this. It shows processes started by
all users. To see backgrounded processes you need to use "ps x"

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