Check process owner?

[mario.schroeder]

how can I check the owner of the process?

"ps -ef |grep defunc > info.txt" ??

[Mark Grant]

Umm, the user name will be on the left hand column.

You are aware that defunct processes are not really aproblme unless you have some dodgy software is spawning hundreds of them

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

The owner is specified in the first collom.

Gideon

[jason morgan_3]

If you know the name of the process.
Do this:

ps -ef |grep PROCESSNAME

The first column should be the User ID. To match the UID to a name:

grep UID /etc/passwd

that should give you all the info you need

Jason

[Bill Hassell]

Actually, if you have a list of the processes that are defunct, then you have the PID already. You can look up all processes owned by the user without grep (which is not very picky on what it matches) by using ps -fu user_name.