Hi, in ps some accounts are username, others are IDs. example for two accounts: #> cut -d: -f1,3 /etc/passwd |egrep "mobidyc|hald" haldaemon:104 mobidyc:1000 #> ps -eo user,args |egrep "hal|104|mobidyc|1000" |grep -v root 104 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no 104 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0 104 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1 104 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2 104 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event4 104 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event5 104 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi mobidyc /usr/bin/gkrellm2 (note this is the same result with "ps -ef" and "ps aux".) the more strange is with the same command but the args field: #> ps -eo user |egrep "hal|104|mobidyc|1000" |grep -v root haldaemon haldaemon haldaemon haldaemon haldaemon haldaemon haldaemon mobidyc i've ran pwck without error. sys-process/procps-3.2.7 Linux argon 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 #1 Fri Nov 9 21:45:18 CET 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux this problem is always reproducible. -- Regards, Mobidyc
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 86821 ***
