hidden processes / nautilus, gnome-vfs-daemon

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:35:33 -0800, Shahms E. King wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 07:59, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On my FC2 Test2 installation, there are four hidden processes. Three are
> > nautilus, one is gnome-vfs-daemon. Their PID directories below /proc are
> > hidden, and the processes cannot seem to be listed with "ps" either.
> > 
> > What exactly is the reason for hiding them?
> > 
> > I've failed to find something about it in the nautilus changelog.
> 
> It's not nautilus or gnome-vfs-daemon, but SELinux that's hiding them. 
> su to root (or newrole -r sysadm_r) and then do a ps axZ and see what
> domain they are in (the last part of the context, should end with a
> '_t').  The processes domain is probably not visible from the user_r
> role.

The processes do not show up in "ps axZ" output either with
root:sysadm_r:sysadm_t.