From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 11 17:53:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D7516A421 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C81B13C4C1 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 14671 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2007 17:53:33 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2007 17:53:33 -0000 Message-ID: <4737416A.2060606@chuckr.org> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:52:42 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <4736669F.5010408@chuckr.org> <20071111034559.GE72824@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20071111034559.GE72824@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Subject: Re: ps options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:53:41 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 10), Chuck Robey said: >> I have spent all the time I can stand, going over the ps man page, but I >> can't see any option to get a hierarchical listing. I mean, where the >> listings are sorted to where parents come before children, and the children >> get indentation, so you can see at a glance what's running more easily. >> It's a standard thing on many OSes, and I was sorta hoping it'd be >> available on FreeBSD. Maybe under a different name? > > It's usually a separate command (ptree on Solaris for example). Try > the sysutils/pstree port. > I've gotten a lot of replies, so I thought to give a blanket "Thank you" because pstree is just what I wanted. You might actually be as suprised as I was when I found that both Solaris and Linux both of them (and some others, but I forget which ones) do happen to have an option to ps itself, tha gives the same as a pstree listing, which is why I asked about options. Doesn't matter, I'm quite pleased now, so again: Thanks!