On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 02:06:45PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/12/10 13:02 CST: > > As a note, ps is now printing a uid instead of the name if the name is > > too long. Changing the names s/haldaemon/hald/ and s/messagebus/msgbus/ > > in /etc/passwd provides the user name. > > That has been standard behavior for years and years. I remember when > we first installed Anduin and jhuntwork was over 8 chars, so all his > processes were noted by UID and not the username. We had a thread on > this as well.
My username on my system is krendoshazin, and that shows up as 1000 in ps. As far as I remember it's always done this, but in a program like top it shows up as krendosh. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
