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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--Darth Vader
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