From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 23:35:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16759 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (jkb@shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16747 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id XAA19702; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:35:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 23:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: vega vega cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: someone what stupid question about ps in 2.2.7 In-Reply-To: <19980725062615.17055.rocketmail@web4.rocketmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If top does show it, try to find out it's pid and then do $ ps -p pid Does that work? -- Yan Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark." Observation #1: The more security consultants get paid, the longer their sentences are On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, vega vega wrote: > > > >---"Jan B. Koum " wrote: >> >> >> This is ODD. Are you sure you had pppd running at >that time? ps >> should show all processes. >> >> -- Yan > >yup it was running at the time, killall pppd killed >the process, and top will show the pid, but ps -a >wont show the pid for some reason. i dont know if >this is a ps bug or just a new implementation of ps >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message