On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Eric wrote: : I don't think that using ps would show you if idled is running or not. At : least, on my hamm system, I can't find a way to use ps to show me _all_ : processes (including daemons). I always found this odd, since a : home-grown Linux system that I always use does show every process when : using 'ps aw' (even init). You could take a look at all the : '/proc/<pidnum>/cmdline's to see if it's running.
`ps awx' [ man ps ] ... a show processes of other users too ... x show processes without controlling terminal ... w wide output: don't truncate command lines to fit on one line. To be exact, every w that is specified will add another possible line to the output. If the space isn't needed it isn't used. You may up to 100 w's. ... Straight from the man-page, typos and all :) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null