[ILUG] weird process name -:0

[David Ryan]

I did a 'ps aux' and got the following (among other things . . .)

root       642  0.0  0.3  2560  960 ?        S    11:22   0:00
/etc/X11/prefdm -
root       644  0.0  0.1  1052  280 ?        S    11:22   0:00 update
(bdflush)
root       646  0.3  0.8  5896 2284 ?        S    11:22   0:03
/usr/X11R6/bin/X 
root       647  0.0  0.7  3372 2040 ?        S    11:22   0:00 -:0

root       658  0.0  0.5  2352 1412 ?        S    11:22   0:00 fvwm2 -cmd
FvwmM4
root       743  0.0  0.3  2012  956 ?        S    11:22   0:00
/usr/X11R6/lib/X1
root       744  0.0  0.3  1972  860 ?        S    11:22   0:00
/usr/X11R6/lib/X1
root       746  0.0  0.7  3032 1944 ?        S    11:22   0:00 xterm +ut
-geomet
root       747  0.0  0.7  3540 2008 ?        S    11:22   0:00
control-panel -ge
root       748  0.0  0.5  2528 1388 ?        SN   11:22   0:00 xload
-nolabel -g
root       750  0.0  0.3  1960  836 ?        S    11:22   0:00
/usr/X11R6/lib/X1


Note the name of process 647.  Strange or what ?

I did a 'ps al' and it showed that 647 was a child of 642 - prefdm

Should I be worried ?

It may be a normal thing, but anything with a smilie as a process name is a
bit dodgy in my books.

David