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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:40:27 -0400
From:      "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        bill <bill@techservsys.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV)
Message-ID:  <200208201640.28030.bts@babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020820150314.GC37720@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <3D61EF7C.27429.9BC4F7B@localhost> <200208200816.09303.bts@babbleon.org> <20020820150314.GC37720@dan.emsphone.com>

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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)

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