Catalin Bucur enscribed thusly:
> Thanks men, but I guess there are no solutions for my problem. Anyway,
> can I make to apear something else instead of the real name of the
> process?
Look at the sendmail sources. Grep for "setproctitle".
> Goody wrote:
> >
> > Hmmmmm. If you could su root you could write some kind of wrapper around
> > ps (shell script) that would do this :
> >
> > ps aux | grep -v yourusername
> >
> > This would return only lines that do not contain your username in them.
> >
> > This is kindof lame, but it's about the only way I can figure out how to
> > do it other than getting the source code for ps and recoding, compiling,
> > and installing it on your system. Other utilities such as 'top' would
> > probably have to be recoded, too. If you can never get root access,
> > forget it ! :-) Can you copy the executable and rename it to cloak its
> > identity ?
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> > g o o d y @ v o i c e n e t . c o m
> >
> > Powered by RedHat Linux 5.1 -- a free UNIX-based operating system !
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, LENGARD Pascal OCISI wrote:
> >
> > > in short: NO
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Catalin Bucur [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:21 AM
> > > To: Lista rutgers Linux Newbie
> > > Subject: Hiding processes...
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am ordinary user in a Linux box. There are many other users, too. Can
> > > I put a process in background (or in foreground, it doesn't matter) and
> > > no one can see this process (except root, of course)?
> > >
> > > TIA.
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