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From: aalcorn@hpcc01.HP.COM (Albert Alcorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Whats going on here then ?
Message-ID: <1670019@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 91 23:58:11 GMT
References: <1356@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett Packard Instrument Support Tools Lab
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>Today I noticed a couple of odd processes (see below) running owned by 
>root, apparently going through the filesystem and doing something with 
>acl's for uids 248 and 251.  These uids in fact belonged to two users 
>that I deleted earlier today.

These are probably the commands to remove all files belonging to these users.
I think that reconfig had an option to do this. The find is searching the entirefile system to remove any file owned by these users.

>I notice that the processes appear to have been started by init, though
>I find no references in inittab.

They were not started by init, but init owns them now. nohup will cause this to happen.

>   Andy.
>-- 
>
>Andy Pearman, Computer Dept, Philips Research Labs, Redhill, Surrey, England. 
>              pearmana@prl.philips.co.uk
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Albert Alcorn
albert@hpprsd1.hp.com