[ale] process confusion

[jcphil at mindspring.com (Jim Philips)]

Last night, I rebooted my computer. I went to restart some services. First, I 
started MySQL. No problem there. Then I went to start Apache with:

apachectl startssl

I got a message saying that httpd was already present under pid 1120. I knew I 
hadn't started it, because I have to enter a pass phrase to start SSL. So, I 
ran:

ps aux | grep http

There was nothing there. Next, I ran:

ps aux | grep 1120

There was pid 1120, but it belonged to mysql! How is it possible for the 
system to be confused about who owns the process and what it is?

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