On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:36:47AM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > This might help in the future, Seneca: > > ps a | grep slrn | grep -v grep > 863 pts/3 S 0:00 slrn You can cut out an unnecessary process (not that it's likely to be a big deal these days) with: ps a | grep "[s]lrn"