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Subject: Re: ps -awux
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Akhthar Parvez. K wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I run the command ps -awux from a user's bash shell(not root), it's 
> listing the processes under the particular user only. Can anyone tell me why?
> 

Under FreeBSD 4.x the sysctl is:

kern.ps_showallprocs

0: only show processes of the user itself
1: Show all processes