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In article <54953086$0$54650$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 14-12-19 20:30, Mickey MacMouse wrote:
> > 
> > I was just looking at Process Viewer to check CPU usage of an app and
> > spotted a few weird processes popping up and disappearing.
> 
> 
> What version of OS-X are you running ?
> 
> Once the version is known, people here would be able to tell you what
> mechanisms exist to launch pocesses in background. For instance, i Snow
> Leopard, there is launchd but also older xinit, cron and possibly others.
> 
> Once you know what mechanisms exist, you can look at their configs/log
> files for tell tale signs of those processes launched by numeric user.
> 
> The OS-X version will also determine how users are defined on your
> system and what tools you use to get a list of all uid gids that exist
> on your system and spot the ones without names associated with them.

Sorry. I thought I had said. It is an old G3 CRT iMac with 10.1 or
maybe 10.2. I can't check right now because it is at different
location.

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  Re: Process names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-20 01:43 +0000
  Re: Process names JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-12-19 21:15 -0500
  Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-20 18:17 +1300
    Re: Process names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-12-20 05:59 +0000
    Re: Process names Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-12-19 22:38 -0800
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        Re: Process names Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-19 23:32 -0800
          Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-23 13:10 +1300
            Re: Process names Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-22 16:24 -0800
              Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-23 19:15 +1300
                Re: Process names Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-12-23 11:16 -0500
                Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-24 16:34 +1300
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                Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-25 19:31 +1300
  Re: Process names JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-12-20 03:17 -0500
    Re: Process names Mickey MacMouse <mickey@mousehouse.com> - 2014-12-21 09:48 +1300

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