I logged in on a local X-11 session as a normal user, surfed the web, logged out, went to a text console, logged in as an admin user and ran ps aux. Two processes are left from the normal user that was logged out -- one was fam, and the other was /usr/bin/esd -terminate. These processes remained until I kill them. (I killed fam first, which was robably the wrong order.) (And it occurs to me that fam should be running as /usr/bin/fam, not as fam.) Is there any particular reason these processes should end up left over after logging out? I logged in as a different normal user, surfed (but did not go to /. this time) and logged out, and there were no leftovers. I'm being a little paranoid, because I haven't updated firefox past pre-1.0, and I haven't upgraded JRE since the sandbox issue was made public. Also, while I was surfing in the session that had the leftovers, I lost all my bookmarks. (I hadn't logged in on that account for several days.) Does anyone have any idea whether I should be worried? -- Joel Rees <rees@xxxxxxxxxxx> digitcom, inc. 株式会社デジコム Kobe, Japan +81-78-672-8800 ** <http://www.ddcom.co.jp> **
