Re: -:() Process

On 2006-06-11, jcw248 <jcw248@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am currenlty showing a process when doing a ps -ef on my system I
receive a process listed as -:(). I killed the process and it logged of
my system. Have I been compromised? I tried searching on this process
and did not get any responses back.

Are you sure it's not "-:0" ?

That's part of how X communicates with its various pieces. If you kill
it, you kill your X server and thus are logged out when a new X server
process is spawned by init.

If you have more than one X display running, you'll probably see "-:1"
and "-:2" and so on for each display screen.

--

John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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