From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 22:50:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBDC116A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:50:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from bache.ece.cmu.edu (BACHE.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.129.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D65B43D5E for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from [10.9.204.128] (dsl093-061-215.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.61.215]) by bache.ece.cmu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569A27A for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:50:10 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <20060215223432.GH70956@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1140027060.83368.11.camel@r4.agava-guns.domain> <20060215194204.GC70956@dan.emsphone.com> <20060215215608.GA55676@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060215223432.GH70956@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <492FC03C-E308-4438-B36C-975B608BF167@ece.cmu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:50:08 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: Strange process X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:50:16 -0000 On Feb 15, 2006, at 5:34 , Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Feb 15), Kris Kennaway said: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> I often see this too. For example: >> >> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU >> COMMAND >> 5357 kkenn 1 96 0 0K 0K START 0:00 0.35% >> xpdf >> >>> ps -waux | grep xpdf >> kkenn 5357 0.3 0.0 0 0 ?? RE Sun08PM 0:00.20 >> [xpdf] >> >>> ps lp 5357 >> UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS MWCHAN STAT TT >> TIME COMMAND > > That syntax should have worked... Try a plain "px axl | grep xpdf" > instead. I was asked to look at something like this a week ago; as above, it was stuck in START and "ps" refused to show it without "x". (Didn't really get anywhere with it.) -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH