> I am wondering, what it means when a process shows up with brackets > around its name when I call "ps ax". For example, the sshd here: > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > [snip those procs] > 170 ? SW 0:01 [sshd] > [snip those procs] these are processes that have no resident pages, see man page of proc and ps for more information. -- saisanthosh