Re: [PLUG] users: nobody, lp, postfix

2005-11-14 Thread Onkar Shinde
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sonawane Satish wrote: > Hi, > Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix) > users as indicated by "top" command. > > ///--- > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM > TIME

Re: [PLUG] users: nobody, lp, postfix

2005-11-13 Thread Saurabh Bathe
Sonawane Satish wrote: Hi, Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix) users as indicated by "top" command. nobody -- unprivilaged user for nfs. lp -- unprivilaged user for printing services postfix -- user postfix runs as P.N: This is a snap of "top" , when only one user "sks" is lo

Re: [PLUG] users: nobody, lp, postfix

2005-11-13 Thread Kaustubh Gadkari
On Monday 07 Nov 2005 9:06 pm, Sonawane Satish wrote: > Hi, > Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix) > users as indicated by "top" command. > You seem to have services like postfix etc. running. Postfix runs as a process created by the 'postfix' user. Similarly with lp (cupsd) and no

Re: [PLUG] users: nobody, lp, postfix

2005-11-13 Thread Aditya Godbole
On 11/7/05, Sonawane Satish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix) > users as indicated by "top" command. > Many daemon executables are owned and run as user created for the sole purpose of running those daemons. This is for security reasons. The da

[PLUG] users: nobody, lp, postfix

2005-11-10 Thread Sonawane Satish
Hi, Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix) users as indicated by "top" command. ///--- asks: 61 total, 1 running, 60 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.3% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si