On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Wil Cooley wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 05:17, Ian Beyer wrote: > > > schizo [178]# pkill xinetd > > schizo [179]# ps -ef | grep imap > > ~ andrea 12302 1 0 18:01:21 ? 0:00 imapd > > ~ manuka 17720 1 0 06:33:26 ? 0:00 imapd > > ~ manuka 13516 1 0 20:23:28 ? 0:00 imapd > > ~ andrea 12997 1 0 19:21:21 ? 0:01 imapd > > Here's something very wrong. Cyrus imapd processes will always be > running as user 'cyrus'--not the connecting user. UW and other IMAP > servers run as root and setuid to the appropriate user, which is what > this looks like.
Only xinetd was killed. imapds were orphaned, but not killed. Their ppid's are all 1. If xinetd had been forking uw-imapds before it was killed, this would make sense. Dave -- Dave McMurtrie, Systems Programmer University of Pittsburgh Computing Services and Systems Development, Development Services -- UNIX and VMS Services 717P Cathedral of Learning (412)-624-6413 PGP/GPG Key: http://www.pitt.edu/~dgm/gpgkey.asc.txt --- Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
