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High-gain 11-10-2005 02:53 PM
Mandriva 2005 - mDNSresponder
 
Hi there, anyone help me on this one please.

Have just done a #ps aux in the terminal and came across this entery:

#nobody XXX XXX XXX XX XXX mDNSresponder

#the XXX represent the column figures

Does anyone know what/who is "nobody" at the start of the entry
and is this a security breech.

Thanks for looking

reddazz 11-10-2005 03:50 PM
nobody is a system user thats setup by Linux/Unix. Many apps run as nobody so don't worry about it. You can disable mDNSresponder, not many users need it.

High-gain 11-10-2005 04:17 PM
mDNSresponder
 
Many thanks for your quick response and much appreciated for your info. Will follow your advice and disable.

Good Luck and thanks again.


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