Lsof: no pwd entry for UID

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I'm trying to run command lsof |grep services on my Solaris 10 to find any processes that have big files which are using up the disk space but i got a bunch of lines saying:

lsof: no pwd entry for UID 105

I looked at /etc/passwd but there's no user with UID 105 (I think this user was deleted).

What is the lsof line above indicating?

Best Answer

I looked at /etc/passwd but there's no user with UID 105 (I think this user was deleted).

That's what the lsof output is indicating. There's a process running owned by UID 105, but when it tried to lookup the username, there's no entry for that UID in /etc/passwd. Most likely the process was started before the user was deleted, and has been running ever since.

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