hidden processes / nautilus, gnome-vfs-daemon

[Michael Schwendt]

On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three are
nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.

What exactly is the reason for hiding them?

I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog.

[Shahms King]

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 07:59, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three
> are
>  nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
>  hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.
>  
>  What exactly is the reason for hiding them?
>  
>  I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog. 
It's not nautilus or gnome-vfs-daemon, but SELinux that's hiding them. 
su to root (or newrole -r sysadm_r) and then do a ps axZ and see what
domain they are in (the last part of the context, should end with a
'_t').  The processes domain is probably not visible from the user_r
role.

-- 
--Shahms

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:35:33 -0800, Shahms E. King wrote:

>  On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 07:59, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  > On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three are
>  > nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
>  > hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.
>  > 
>  > What exactly is the reason for hiding them?
>  > 
>  > I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog.
>  
>  It's not nautilus or gnome-vfs-daemon, but SELinux that's hiding them. 
>  su to root (or newrole -r sysadm_r) and then do a ps axZ and see what
>  domain they are in (the last part of the context, should end with a
>  '_t').  The processes domain is probably not visible from the user_r
>  role. 
The processes do not show up in "ps axZ" output either with
root:sysadm_r:sysadm_t.

[StoneBeat]

possibly threads

Try ps -axum

from "man ps" -->  -m             show all threads

El Sábado 03 Abril 2004 17:59, Michael Schwendt escribió:
>  On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three
> are
>  nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
>  hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.
>
>  What exactly is the reason for hiding them?
>
>  I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 00:04:29 +0200, StoneBeat wrote:

>  possibly threads
>  
>  Try ps -axum
>  
>  from "man ps" -->  -m             show all threads
>  
>  El Sábado 03 Abril 2004 17:59, Michael Schwendt escribió:
>  > On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three are
>  > nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
>  > hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.
>  >
>  > What exactly is the reason for hiding them?
>  >
>  > I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog. 

No.

Examine your system a bit, StoneBeat.