From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpWW4-0001Mx-VH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5082E0632; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE7FE0632 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA2A64C46 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.331 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.331 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.732, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yb+2NHK38XCm for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA57A6437A for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:12:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MpWVp-0000zp-Lx for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:12:13 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-176-172.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.176.172]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:12:13 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-176-172.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:12:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: runlevels and service list Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:11:51 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1253450052.10837.119.camel@rattus> <20090920205429.1a914d0f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <4AB68B54.6010505@gmail.com> <200909202210.12139.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AB6A3DA.1080506@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-176-172.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090920 Shredder/3.0pre In-Reply-To: <4AB6A3DA.1080506@gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 01c32f88-d65d-4b68-8595-b2cabd358be2 X-Archives-Hash: 148c7ba7fb94460d026dca85730c7d3f On 09/20/2009 02:51 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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? >> > This one: > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > Looks like bash. ;-) I assume this is the default because I have never > changed this file. Is there something screwy with my system? In linux bash is the default shell (even sh is a symlink to bash) but in other OS's other default shells prevail. How did you type your 'ps aux' command? In an xterm window, or what? Here's a snippet from my ps axf: (I love that 'f' flag) 4682 tty1 S 0:00 xterm -bg rgb:db/e9/f9 -sb -fn 9x15 4685 pts/0 Ss 0:00 \_ bash 4724 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ su 4729 pts/0 S 0:00 \_ bash 22427 pts/0 R+ 0:00 \_ ps axf