Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!jolnet!rich
From: rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: background (hidden) processes
Message-ID: <555@jolnet.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 88 06:19:38 GMT
Reply-To: rich@jolnet.UUCP (Rich Andrews)
Organization: jolnet, Public Access UNIX, Joliet, IL
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I have been running accounting here and have yet to see any sort of activity
(ps -ef) and yet i know that every time a command is entered it is logged to the 
appropriate disk file.  

	What is the mechanism involved here and how does it "hide" from the 
ps -ef output?

rich andrews

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