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Subject: Re: ps -awux
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At 10:39 PM 7/21/2005, Akhthar Parvez. K wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks to Frank. I have changed the value of kern.ps_showallprocs to 1 and 
>its
>listing all processes now. I used the following command
>
>sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs=1
>
>Will the value change back to zero once the server is rebooted. If yes, is
>there any way to make the changes permanently. I added the following line
>into /boot/loader.conf, but that didn't help.
>kern.ps_showallprocs="1"
>
>Any help is much appreciated.

Add kern.ps_showallprocs=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf

-Glenn


>On Wednesday 20 July 2005 23:06, Frank de Bot wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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>With Regards,
>
>Akhthar Parvez.K
>System Administrator
>Carmatec IT Solutions Pvt Ltd.
>1st Block, Koramangala,
>Bangalore
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