[Xprint] dealing with open background processes from /etc/init.d/xprint

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Fri Jun 24 09:07:04 EDT 2005


Drew Parsons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to review the way Xprt is launched, comparing Debian
> GNU/Linux to other Linuces as well as other Unices.
> 
> On Debian we notice there are a handful of rogue processes
> appearing when /etc/init.d/xprint is used to start Xprt.
> 
> "ps aux | grep -i [x]pr" reports something like
> 
> 
> root     13988  0.0  0.3   4852  1592 pts/4    S    14:15 0:00
> /bin/bash /etc/init.d/xprint start [..]

FYI: I also have Debian (Sid) and three extra processes, but 
slightly different: /bin/bash /etc/rc2.d/S20xprint start


Regards, Jan


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