login errors

[David]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Kevin wrote:

> Did you check for other processes that root might be running?
>
> 'ps -U root'
>
> BTW, I know nothing about Oracle, but why are these processes being run as
> root?  Seems a bit dangerous.  What if you have a buffer overflow in one of
> the Oracle processes and I use it to run "arbitrary code"?  :-/
>
> ...Kevin
>

yeah, I checked all the users.  There was nothing odd in my 'ps' output 
or in my 'lsof' output.

The process are kicked off by root's crontab, but 'su - oracle'.  Not my 
preferred way of doing it, but sometimes it's not my call...

Thanks,
David

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