this is what i get when i type...
ps -Al
1 S 0 3 1 0 75 -5 - 0 worker ? 00:00:00 events/0
4 S 0 779 1 0 76 -4 - 372 - ? 00:00:00 udevd
5 S 0 2396 1 0 80 0 - 379 - ? 00:00:00 inetd
5 S 0 2406 1 0 80 0 - 1330 - ? 00:00:29 3
1 S 0 2449 1 0 80 0 - 480 - ? 00:00:01 3
1 S 0 2452 1 0 80 0 - 639 - ? 00:00:00 3
(trimmed)
seenow, those "3" processes are actually stuff like named, ulogd, dhcpd...
revealed by "ps aux" for example (which shows full paths not process name)
the thing is, ps -Al and killall search process names in /proc/$PID/stat
between (). and its wrongly there.
tried with last couple of 2.6 kernels, and not too sure its kernel fault.
so any ideas why /proc/$PID/stat gives process name as "3" and not
"dhcpd" for example?

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:32:19 +0200, Mad-Eye Moody <zhillaREMOVEBRA@spymac.com> wrote:

>this is what i get when i type...
>ps -Al
>1 S 0 3 1 0 75 -5 - 0 worker ? 00:00:00 events/0
>4 S 0 779 1 0 76 -4 - 372 - ? 00:00:00 udevd
>5 S 0 2396 1 0 80 0 - 379 - ? 00:00:00 inetd
>5 S 0 2406 1 0 80 0 - 1330 - ? 00:00:29 3
>1 S 0 2449 1 0 80 0 - 480 - ? 00:00:01 3
>1 S 0 2452 1 0 80 0 - 639 - ? 00:00:00 3
>(trimmed)
>seenow, those "3" processes are actually stuff like named, ulogd, dhcpd...
>revealed by "ps aux" for example (which shows full paths not process name)
>the thing is, ps -Al and killall search process names in /proc/$PID/stat
>between (). and its wrongly there.
>tried with last couple of 2.6 kernels, and not too sure its kernel fault.
>so any ideas why /proc/$PID/stat gives process name as "3" and not
>"dhcpd" for example?

~# ps -Al
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
4 S 0 1 0 0 68 0 - 150 select ? 00:00:03 init
1 S 0 2 1 0 69 0 - 0 contex ? 00:00:00 keventd
....
0 S 0 18775 1 0 69 0 - 9656 pipe_w ? 00:00:30 ip2c-server
0 S 1000 18832 18483 0 69 0 - 610 wait4 pts/1 00:00:00 rsync-slack
0 S 1000 18833 18832 0 69 0 - 710 select pts/1 00:00:02 rsync
1 S 1000 18834 18833 0 69 0 - 771 select pts/1 00:00:29 rsync
4 R 0 19115 182 0 73 0 - 1589 - ? 00:00:53 sshd
4 S 0 19118 19115 0 70 0 - 717 wait4 pts/2 00:00:01 bash
4 R 0 19448 19118 15 77 0 - 639 - pts/2 00:00:00 ps

Not happen here on 2.4.32+hf You running any security extras?

Grant.
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:18:16 +1100, Grant wrote:

> Not happen here on 2.4.32+hf You running any security extras?

nope. should i try to?

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:51:26 +0200, Mad-Eye Moody wrote:

>> Not happen here on 2.4.32+hf You running any security extras?
> nope. should i try to?

problem solved. and i'm a retard.
i had a briliant idea to reduce boot time, by upx-ing bigger binaries that
start on boot (wifi router machine with old and slow hard drive).
those binaries were the ones displaying wrong process names.
/usr/sbin/named for example. which lead to problems, such
being unable to stop/restart service using /etc/rc.d/rc.service
stop/restart.
now, i also repacked those binaries using new 1.94 beta of upx. it
works flawlessly.