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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:05:42 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: xiyuan qian <xiyuan@npc.haplink.co.cn>
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Subject: Re: sorry to ask a freebsd-question question!
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, xiyuan qian wrote:

>  Hi, I know "ps -ax | grep ppp" can find the ppp running's pid, but when I do 
>  that, it sometimes show me 
>      616 ....  ppp
>      716 ....  ps -ax | grep ppp
>  or sometimes it only show me 
>      616 ....ppp
>  Why? How can I deny the "ps -ax | grep ppp"  showing out?

ps -ax | fgrep ppp | fgrep -v fgrep

Danny