Re: strange output for command ps

This one time, at band camp, Lindo Nepi said:
> hi all.
> on my debian box (debian 4.0 , kernel 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9
> 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux )
> when i do "ps aux" i obtain:
> 121 29199 0.0 22.4 124280 116152 ? SN 17:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/dansguardian
> ^^^^^
>
> look here, ps shows UID , not username.
>
> It's normal?

Yes, ps truncates username output when it's longer than 8 characters.

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