individual config file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Thu Dec 15 15:32:10 PST 2011


On 12/15/2011 5:47 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:26:35AM -0800):
> | IIRC, it is possible with options in the 'ps' command to see what
> | environment variables are in place in another running process. Could this
> | be used to see what the final environment was in the malfunctioning login?
>
> Never heard of such an option, and it certainly would be non-Unixy
> for user joe to be able to unveil the environment used by tom or
> alice.  I don't think there's even a way for root to do so.

On systems with a /proc pseudo-filesystem, root can do so.

The OSR5 man page for "ps" doesn't show any such option:

     http://osr507doc.sco.com/en/man/html.C/ps.C.html

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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