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[Dave McMurtrie]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 05:17, Ian Beyer wrote:
>
> > schizo [178]# pkill xinetd
> > schizo [179]# ps -ef | grep imap
> > ~  andrea 12302     1  0 18:01:21 ?        0:00 imapd
> > ~  manuka 17720     1  0 06:33:26 ?        0:00 imapd
> > ~  manuka 13516     1  0 20:23:28 ?        0:00 imapd
> > ~  andrea 12997     1  0 19:21:21 ?        0:01 imapd
>
> Here's something very wrong.  Cyrus imapd processes will always be
> running as user 'cyrus'--not the connecting user.  UW and other IMAP
> servers run as root and setuid to the appropriate user, which is what
> this looks like.

Only xinetd was killed.  imapds were orphaned, but not killed.  Their
ppid's are all 1.  If xinetd had been forking uw-imapds before it was
killed, this would make sense.

Dave
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