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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:49:08 -0400
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ps -l: now it's there, now it's not.
Message-ID:  <20010814174908.A50818@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20010814164507.A46533@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:45:07PM -0400
References:  <20010814164507.A46533@moo.holy.cow>

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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 14 16:45 -0400,
sent by parv                                                         
>
> hi,
> 
> i have sshd running all the time binded to localhost & sometimes ssh
> to forward port. a few days ago, i used to get output, as a regular
> user, for...
> 
> # ps -lax | egrep TIME|ssh' | grep -v grep
> UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
>   0   227     1   0   2  0  2200 1152 select Is    ??    0:00.02 /usr/sbin/sshd
> 
> ...now i get only the header. however i do get the sshd in the output
> if i run the above command as root, or as a regular user, use -u 
> option w/ or w/o -l option.
> 
> ps(1) didn't help me to understand the behaviour.
> 
> what am i missing?
> 

w/ some experimentation w/ -O option, "wchan" keyword present in the 
-l option seemed to make sshd not show up for regular user. 

this option, used w/ -a -x, seems to fill the gaps of -j, -l, and 
-u ...

 -O user,ppid,nice,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss


anyway, can anybody tell me what's special about "wchan" and its 
interaction w/ regular user's usage of ps?



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