From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 13:40:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AD237B810 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e73Kfig23457; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:41:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:41:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Nathan Vidican Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps -ax runs off the screen In-Reply-To: <3989D5C5.D100AE49@wmptl.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > When I do a ps -ax | grep "ftpd:" , it tends to run off the screen if > the hostname is too long. Does the process simply not display anything > past X amount of characters wide, or would it somehow be possible to > pipe the output of 'ps -ax' to a text file? > Add the -w switch for "wide" display (ps axw). If that's still not enough, add another 'w'. Oh yeah, and 'man ps'. :) -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message