Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:50:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: bts@babbleon.org (Brian T. Schellenberger) Cc: dnelson@allantgroup.com (Dan Nelson), bill@techservsys.com (bill), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help a poor refuge from SCO UNIX (SysV) Message-ID: <200208202150.g7KLowj11390@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208201640.28030.bts@babbleon.org> from "Brian T. Schellenberger" at Aug 20, 2002 04:40:27 PM
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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.
Use it the way the man page says. I don't understand that previous
statement being so generalized or universally made. In my experience
using the minus almost always works except for a couple of things and
there seem to be plenty that are unfriendly without it.
As for ps, check the man page.
I have gotten in to the habit of typing 'ps -auxw' for almost
everything. In fact I made an alias I call 'psg' that is
alias "psg ps -auxww | grep "
to search for stuff.
Saves a lot of typing.
////jerry
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