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Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:13:40 -0400
From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: ps -l: now it's there, now it's not.
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In-Reply-To: <20010814164507.A46533@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 04:45:07PM -0400
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 14 16:45 -0400,
sent by parv                                                         
...
> i used to get output, as a regular user, for...
> 
> # ps -lax | egrep TIME|ssh' | grep -v grep
...
> 
> ...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?

now i know what i was missing exactly: -ww

sorry to bother everybody.


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