What does it all mean?

[Jeff Vian]

live4bacon at optonline.net wrote:

>So reading through some messages today I thought I would take a look at:
>'ps -ef | grep mysql'   Which I assume tells me who owns/started the Mysql processes?  And I know it is not a good for Mysql to run as root so I was curious as to whether this is the expected output and if not what do I need to do to fix it?
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>root      4023     1  0 Feb08 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf
>mysql     4047  4023  0 Feb08 ?        00:00:01 /usr/libexec/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-locking
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mysql MUST start as root.  (that is the first line) , then switches to 
the mysql user to run the server (that is the second line)
This is normal