Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Linux has an issue that I don't care for. > > If a process is owned by a user with a username longer than 8 > characters, a ps listing does not show the user name, instead, it > show the UID number. > > The default user to run the D-Bus daemon is named "messagebus". This > name exceeds 8 characters, therefore a ps listing of processes shows > the daemon owned by a numerical representation of the username (UID) > instead of the username. > > I don't like this.
Me neither, but that's the beauty of open source. Now how difficult is it to make ps work correctly? ;-) I'm only half joking, but as already suggested by Jeremy, not using the default username sounds like a sensible way to handle it. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
