Re: cron/at question.

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Hans wrote:
> 
> At 12:48 PM 12/13/00 -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >> Three questions:
> >>
> >> 1) both cron and at seem to run programs in the background. However there
> >> is no pid when I do a ps aux, so how do I stop a job from running?
> >
> >if a program is running, it will have a pid
> 
> Fine, so where can I find it? If I run radio straight from the command
> prompt ps and ps aux will list a pid for radio. If I run radio via cron/at
> there is no pid when I do ps or ps aux. In fact, there is no pid for
> anything at the time cron/at executes radio. You'd expect at least
> something, either a pid for radio or a pid for at. That's what I found
> strange, hence my question.

  there definitely is a pid for every program that runs. you might need
to run 'ps ax' instead of just ps.

	erik