Re: XWin shows in "ps -a" but not in "ps"

2010-08-13 Thread Morgan Gangwere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/2010 05:01 AM, Fergus wrote: > I have XWin running and it shows up as a process under > ps -a > but not under > ps Time for another round of the blame game! What's happening is that your shell is getting instantiated on a new vty. Even on m

XWin shows in "ps -a" but not in "ps"

2010-08-13 Thread Fergus
I have XWin running and it shows up as a process under ps -a but not under ps I think this behaviour is recent: certainly it has perturbed what were previously well-behaved scripts. Supplementary: I was basically using ps | grep in a script to query whether XWin was running. Am I correct that