Re: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 22:06:44 Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> /bin/bash is also shown in htop even though bash isn't in any runlevel
> >> either ;)
> >
> > Not here.
> 
> This is all I get for bash:
> 
> root@smoker / # ps aux | grep bash
> dale      7254  0.0  0.0   3044   572 ?        S    Sep19   0:00
> /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher
> root      7704  0.0  0.0   1888   516 pts/0    S+   15:01   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto bash
> root@smoker / #
> 
> I guess Seamonkey uses it for something.  That is also all that shows up
> in htop as well.  Nothing else bash that I can find.

The mozilla launcher scripts spawn an instance of bash which then goes looking 
for the mozilla binaries and launches them. All perfectly normal.

The reason you don't see bash in ps is because you are not running bash. I do, 
but you obviously don't. What shell does root use per /etc/passwd? 
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