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On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:28:29 +0000 (UTC)
jb wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It's fb9-release.
> 
> Why the other ps entries do not display cron ?
> 
> $ top
> ...
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU
> COMMAND 1897 root          1  20    0  9644K  1208K nanslp  0   0:03
> 0.00% cron ...
> 
> $ ps -ax |grep cron
>  1897  ??  Is      0:03.16 /usr/sbin/cron -s
> 62278   1  S+      0:00.01 grep cron
> $ ps -a |grep cron
> 62337   1  S+   0:00.00 grep cron
> $ ps -aux |grep cron
> 


If you grep for cron's pid instead of "cron" you'll see that the
command is truncated.