From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 20 11:45:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6EB1509C for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 11:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #3) id 10ZeWX-0009j9-00; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:41:29 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:41:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Sue Blake Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Cross Posting... Message-ID: <19990420184129.A37360@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <371C7AE3.36FA3E12@uswest.net> <19990420230918.18733@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990420230918.18733@welearn.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 06:02:27AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> Aye, a good suggestion indeed. However, >> >> ps aux | grep bastard >> >> doesn't return any pids. Should I be looking for the bastards under >> a different name? > > Perhaps they're big bastards, in which case they might not appear with the > command as you used it. Try this one instead: > > ps auxww | grep bastard No, because the username is always the first column with -aux anyway, it doesn't matter how long the command being run is. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message