can some one help me understand this!!

[LordStanley]

i did a "ps -aux" to see if httpd was running because i wanted to get apache up and running.


Here is my question.......
Why is there 7 enteries for [httpd] all with user nobody?
there all also enteries for [mingetty] and [identd].


why are there more than one?


can someone please help me with this or at least point me in the direction of where i should look.

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1120 68 ? S Mar10 0:06 init [3]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [kflushd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [kupdate]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [kpiod]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:03 [kswapd]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Mar10 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
bin 419 0.0 0.0 1212 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [portmap]
root 434 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [lockd]
root 435 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [rpciod]
root 444 0.0 0.0 1156 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [rpc.statd]
root 458 0.0 0.0 1104 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [apmd]
root 485 0.0 0.0 1208 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/automou
root 538 0.0 0.2 1172 160 ? S Mar10 0:00 syslogd -m 0
root 547 0.0 0.2 1444 172 ? S Mar10 0:00 klogd
nobody 561 0.0 0.0 1292 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 [identd]
nobody 563 0.0 0.0 1292 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 [identd]
nobody 564 0.0 0.0 1292 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 [identd]
nobody 567 0.0 0.0 1292 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 [identd]
nobody 568 0.0 0.0 1292 44 ? S Mar10 0:00 [identd]
daemon 579 0.0 0.1 1144 104 ? S Mar10 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 611 0.0 0.0 1144 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [inetd]
root 699 0.0 0.0 1204 0 ? SW Mar10 0:00 [lpd]
root 747 0.0 0.4 2128 296 ? S Mar10 0:00 sendmail: accepti
root 762 0.0 0.0 1144 52 ? S Mar10 0:00 gpm -t ps/2
root 776 0.0 0.0 7496 48 ? S Mar10 0:01 httpd
xfs 855 0.0 3.3 4132 2144 ? S Mar10 0:02 xfs -droppriv -da
root 899 0.0 0.0 2224 0 tty1 SW Mar10 0:00 [login]
root 900 0.0 0.0 1092 0 tty2 SW Mar10 0:00 [mingetty]
root 901 0.0 0.0 1092 0 tty3 SW Mar10 0:00 [mingetty]
root 902 0.0 0.0 1092 0 tty4 SW Mar10 0:00 [mingetty]
root 903 0.0 0.0 1092 0 tty5 SW Mar10 0:00 [mingetty]
root 904 0.0 0.0 1092 0 tty6 SW Mar10 0:00 [mingetty]
root 907 0.0 0.0 1708 0 tty1 SW Mar10 0:00 [bash]
root 935 0.0 0.0 1668 0 tty1 SW Mar10 0:00 [adsl-connect]
nobody 1197 0.0 0.0 7640 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1198 0.0 0.2 7640 176 ? S Mar11 0:00 httpd
nobody 1199 0.0 0.0 7592 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1200 0.0 0.0 7592 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1201 0.0 0.0 7628 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1202 0.0 0.0 7592 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1203 0.0 0.0 7592 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
nobody 1204 0.0 0.0 7592 0 ? SW Mar11 0:00 [httpd]
root 8622 0.0 0.0 1652 0 tty1 SW Mar12 0:00 [startx]
root 8629 0.0 0.0 2304 0 tty1 SW Mar12 0:00 [xinit]
root 8630 0.0 21.1 44092 13524 ? S Mar12 1:53 /etc/X11/X :0 -au
root 8633 0.0 1.1 5592 728 tty1 S Mar12 0:00 gnome-session
root 8638 0.0 0.5 5440 328 tty1 S Mar12 0:00 gnome-smproxy --s
root 8642 0.0 1.9 4380 1252 tty1 S Mar12 0:08 [enlightenment]
root 8644 0.0 0.5 5924 332 tty1 S Mar12 0:00 magicdev --sm-con
root 8660 0.0 3.4 8848 2216 tty1 S Mar12 0:05 panel --sm-config
root 8661 0.0 0.4 2632 300 ? S Mar12 0:00 gnome-name-servic
root 8705 0.0 2.1 6464 1408 ? S Mar12 0:04 gnomepager_applet
root 8707 0.0 1.2 6420 816 ? S Mar12 0:00 gen_util_applet -
root 8794 0.0 13.7 13560 8792 tty1 S Mar12 0:28 gmc --sm-config-p
root 9209 0.0 0.1 1560 124 ? S Mar13 0:02 /usr/sbin/pppd pt
root 9210 0.0 0.0 1116 48 ? S Mar13 0:08 /usr/sbin/pppoe -
root 9577 0.0 0.0 1124 0 ? SW Mar13 0:00 [portsentry]
root 9579 0.0 0.0 1124 28 ? S Mar13 0:00 /usr/local/psioni
root 10828 0.0 20.1 50132 12940 tty1 S Mar15 0:06 /root/Office51/bi
root 10848 0.0 0.0 0 0 tty1 Z Mar15 0:00 [soffice.bin <def
root 11479 0.0 3.2 6224 2100 tty1 S Mar15 0:02 gnome-terminal
root 11480 0.0 0.0 1144 0 tty1 SW Mar15 0:00 [gnome-pty-helpe]
root 11481 0.0 0.9 1720 628 pts/2 S Mar15 0:00 bash
root 11922 0.0 0.8 1328 568 ? S Mar15 0:00 crond
root 12651 0.0 1.3 2520 836 pts/2 R 12:07 0:00 ps -aux

[ 16 March 2001: Message edited by: LordStanley ]

[PLBlaze]

IN apache's case it's the child processes that get spawned upon it's startup (owned by uid=nobody),if you llok in httpd.conf you'll see a line referencing to them (5 is the default)...

In mingetty,ident cases, first it's your console logins (tty1 thru tty6,see etc/inittab) the other is the identification process that your clients send to various servers (irc,ftp,ssh...etc)

This behavior is normal and there's nothing to worry about.Hope this explains a bit.

[LordStanley]

yes i explains alot!!!

now i just have to figure out how to get apache working!!

thanks !!!!!!

[aph3x]

the reason apache, or httpd, has more than one process running is because it is probably runnning as a standalone server, meaning its connection requests are not handled by inetd. hence, when httpd initially starts, it starts numerous child processes to handle any inital connection requests it may receive, since the inital number of requests could be one or many.