From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 12:57: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.compmore.net (mail.compmore.net [206.222.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF93537B405 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 12:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from support (support.compmore.net [206.222.80.5]) by mail.compmore.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA95444; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:53:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from support@compmore.net) Message-ID: <002a01c14c45$605f5780$0550dece@compmore> From: "Compmore Support" To: "default" , References: Subject: Re: ps syscontrol option Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:54:24 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How does one set ps only to show the processes for the user who is running > ps? (beside root) > > Someone told me to do this: > > let them see their own processes only by putting 'kern.ps_showallprocs=0' in > your /etc/sysctl.conf file > > If you don't want to reboot for it to take effect just run "sysctl > kern.ps_showallprocs=0" Sorry I forgot to post to the group. I believe you use "sysctl -w kern.ps_showallprocs=0" > But i get this error back: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.ps_showallprocs' > > Thanks, > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message