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Why are user-owned process listed via their userid, while system-owned by 
their pseudo-user name in a ps displaying ?
ie:
postfix  3164  0.0  0.0  2168  152 ? S 13:22   0:00 pickup -l -t fifo
postfix  3165  0.0  0.1  2296  192 ? S 13:22   0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u
root 3184  0.0  0.0  1588  116 ? S 13:22   0:00 crond
xfs  3197  0.0  0.7  4756 1456 ? S 13:22   0:00 xfs -port -1 -daemon -user xfs
root      3249  0.0  0.0  2348    4 tty1 S 13:22   0:00 login -- root
root      3251  0.0  0.0  1332    4 tty3 S 13:22   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root      3252  0.0  0.0  1332    4 tty4 S 13:22   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root      3253  0.0  0.0  1332    4 tty5 S 13:22   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root      3254  0.0  0.0  1332    4 tty6 S 13:22   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root      4897  0.0  0.0  1332    4 tty2 S 13:41   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root      5629  0.0  0.0  2636    4 ?        S    13:48   0:00 /usr/bin/kdm
root      5635  1.5  5.3 37536 10304 ?       RL   13:48   0:59 /etc/X11/X
versus:
501       5655  0.0  1.2 12800 2436 ?  S    13:48   0:00 ksmserver --restore
501       5759  0.0  0.0  2972    4 ?   S    13:48   0:00 /usr/bin/imwheel -p
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Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
GPG keys http://www.univ-reunion.fr/~grousse/gpgkeys.html
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