On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 12:07 +0200, Mika Mäkinen wrote:
> hello
>   I have Debian 4.0 and possibly a rootkit. does []s indicate
> a rootkit in ps aux result? I suppose [] does not belong to
> regular ps aux result.
> 
The use of square brackets ([]) in the ps output is perfectly normal.
>From the ps man page:

   Sometimes the process args will be unavailable; when this
   happens, ps will instead print the executable name in brackets.



John.

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