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? Dale :-) :-)
