Field size in ps

I am working on improving the startup file for a daemon that doesn't handle its pid file properly and consistently. I am getting the pid by piping the output of ps ax through grep and cut. The PID field in the ps output is 5 columns wide. Is it a safe assumption that the pid will never be l

Re: /usr/X11R6/share?

On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Only one package (lyx) on my machine makes use of /usr/X11R6/share. > I do not find this directory mentioned in the fsstd, but it seems > the logical place for architecture-independant data for X11 programs. > > Is using this directory specifically forb

/usr/X11R6/share?

Only one package (lyx) on my machine makes use of /usr/X11R6/share. I do not find this directory mentioned in the fsstd, but it seems the logical place for architecture-independant data for X11 programs. Is using this directory specifically forbidden? Or is it okay for a program to be in /usr/X11R