From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 11 03:46:38 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 7704C16A46B for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:46:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E64113C4B8 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id lAB3jxLc072964; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:45:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:45:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chuck Robey Message-ID: <20071111034559.GE72824@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4736669F.5010408@chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4736669F.5010408@chuckr.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 03:46:38 -0000 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com