From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 13:40:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFE037B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FD943E42 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6 [24.93.67.53]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7KKfMts022939; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:41:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:40:34 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 58BE7BA12; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:40:28 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:40:27 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: bill , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3D61EF7C.27429.9BC4F7B@localhost> <200208200816.09303.bts@babbleon.org> <20020820150314.GC37720@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020820150314.GC37720@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208201640.28030.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 20 August 2002 11:03 am, Dan Nelson wrote: | In the last episode (Aug 20), Brian T. Schellenberger said: | > On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:27 am, bill wrote: | > | I think it would be easier to learn freeBSD from scratch rather | > | than fall into all the holes where the same command does slightly | > | different things on SCO and freeBSD. Help ! | > | | > | 1) I want to see all processes to be able to grep the pid of the | > | one I want. ps -a doesn't show process detached from ttys | > | apparently. ps -ef doesn't do it either. what is the correct arg | > | for ps ? | > | > ps -ax | > | > (a = all users; x = without ttys). | | Note: some systems will process both BSD and SYSV ps arguments, | depending on whether you start with a dash. To be safe, always leave | the dash off when using BSD flags. "ps ax". Hmmm . . . but the FreeBSD man page documents using the dash for the BSD options. It always makes mea little nervous to deliberately depart from the man page. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message