Re: funny entry in ps ax

[Alex Pennace]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:40:44PM -0800, Bill Parker wrote:
> I logged into
> my linux box and did a ps ax, and found the following line.
> 
> 8246 ttyp0    SW     0:00 [tcpserver]
> 
> instead of what I might normally expect to see in a ps aux
> 
> 8157 ttyp0    S   0:00 tcpserver -H -R -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c100 -u501 
> -g60 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd

That means the tcpserver process got swapped out. That is normal.