Re: Oracle UNKNOWN processes

In article <1992Apr2.161630.5407_at_deepthought.uucp>, deepthought!neil_at_ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes:
|> I am running Oracle v6 on a NeXTcube. I am accessing the database fine from
|> the host machine. However, when I connect to the server through our Tymnet
|> network, Oracle processes come up with the user UNKNOWN.
|>
|> > UNKNOWN 5349 0.0 2.3 3.40M 832K p4 S 0:00 ora_pmon_nasris
|> > UNKNOWN 5350 0.0 2.8 3.49M 1024K p4 S 0:00 ora_dbwr_nasris
|> > UNKNOWN 5351 0.0 2.8 3.40M 1016K p4 S 0:00 ora_lgwr_nasris
|> > UNKNOWN 5352 0.0 2.3 3.40M 832K p4 S 0:00 ora_smon_nasris
|>
|> Does anyone know what may be causing this, I am confused on the situation.
|> Note: this does _not_ happen all of the time either.

This is becuse ps is looking in the password file to find the name of the user that owns the process. The process table only stores the UID of the process. What has happend is that the entry in the password file has gone missing for some reason. Yoll have to investigate why & also why it comes back again. Maybe you NIS server dies or something ??

RICK DIPPER, Unix Systems Administrator                       rick_at_uk.ac.man.cs
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester           061-275-5725
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