A ps result question referring to httpd
In another forum, a question about the reason several httpd processes are running came up.
After looking at the Activity Monitor, I dug deeper and got some strange (to me, anyway) results.
With File and Web Sharing off here's a typical line from ps -Alj | grep httpd
70 497 496 104 0 31 0 2702048 1904 - S 70b32e0 ?? 0:00.04 httpd --v _www 496 712c248 0 ??
My question is - what is that ' --v ' result?
I believe that the _www is the owner, but I have never seen that --v
Here is the line from the same command when the Apache server is running:
0 28 1 4004 0 31 0 2701012 3820 - Ss 70ba2b0 ?? 0:00.57 /usr/sbin/httpd root 28 7129c30 0 ??
and I understand that result but not the first.
I am going to postulate a surmise that since the corresponding column in the normal output is the path to the actual binary, that the --v has something to do with the process being virtual and not having a home, so to speak.
My curiosity is unending.
Message was edited by: nerowolfe
After looking at the Activity Monitor, I dug deeper and got some strange (to me, anyway) results.
With File and Web Sharing off here's a typical line from ps -Alj | grep httpd
70 497 496 104 0 31 0 2702048 1904 - S 70b32e0 ?? 0:00.04 httpd --v _www 496 712c248 0 ??
My question is - what is that ' --v ' result?
I believe that the _www is the owner, but I have never seen that --v
Here is the line from the same command when the Apache server is running:
0 28 1 4004 0 31 0 2701012 3820 - Ss 70ba2b0 ?? 0:00.57 /usr/sbin/httpd root 28 7129c30 0 ??
and I understand that result but not the first.
I am going to postulate a surmise that since the corresponding column in the normal output is the path to the actual binary, that the --v has something to do with the process being virtual and not having a home, so to speak.
My curiosity is unending.
Message was edited by: nerowolfe
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