Re: active programs overview
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:11:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:52, Joris Huizer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the program to use when I want to know which
> > programs are running ?
>
> $ ps -ax
> $ ps -axf
> $ ps -axf --cols=`echo $COLUMNS`
I hate to nitpick, but all your examples should leave off the "dash"
(the '-' character): ps has been hacked so that it exhibits system V
behavior when provided options preceded by a dash, and bsd behavior
otherwise (but it also tries the bsd behavior when the system V option
you've provided don't make sense).
$ ps -V
procps version 2.0.7
$ ps -x
Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'?
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
3553 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
3554 pts/0 S 0:00 -bash
3590 pts/0 R 0:00 ps -x
$ ps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 1 0 0 Jan17 ? 00:00:17 init
root 2 1 0 Jan17 ? 00:00:00 [keventd]
[ snip ]
nnorman 3554 3553 0 21:18 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
nnorman 3591 3554 0 21:21 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef
$ ps ax
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:17 init
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
[ snip ]
3554 pts/0 S 0:00 -bash
3592 pts/0 R 0:00 ps ax
Otherwise a good post; I find 'ps fax' especially useful when I'm
trying to figure out which process needs killing.
--
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