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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:25:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To: Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com>
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Subject: Re: Ps(1) command on FreeBSD --> parent-child view =?ISO-8859-1?B?vw==?=
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Hi Forrest,

It doesn't give exactly the same output, but "pstree -p" is sorta
nice. Pstree is part of the /usr/ports/sysutils/psmisc port.

HTH,

Dru


On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Forrest wrote:

> Is there an option on FreeBSD's ps(1) command like this
> 
> Root#  ps -axf
> 
> Which would give out a "parent-child" view of process inheritance? Like
> this:
> 
> root     14452  0.0  0.4  2560 1124 ?        S    16:35   0:00 smbd -D
> root     14609  0.0  0.6  3856 1576 ?        S    17:34   0:00  \_ smbd -D
> root     14462  0.0  0.4  2116 1180 ?        S    16:35   0:00 nmbd -D
> root     14468  0.0  0.3  2148 1016 ?        S    16:35   0:00  \_ nmbd -D
> 
> Rather than the FreeBSD version which looks like this:
> 
> root     14452  0.0  0.4  2560 1124 ?        S    16:35   0:00 smbd -D
> root     14609  0.0  0.6  3856 1576 ?        S    17:34   0:00 smbd -D
> root     14462  0.0  0.4  2116 1180 ?        S    16:35   0:00 nmbd -D
> root     14468  0.0  0.3  2148 1016 ?        S    16:35   0:00 nmbd -D
> 
> 
> On some implementations of Unix, this option is obtained with the --forest
> option... On Linux systems, now, it is obtainable with the -f switch.
> 
> Any one know this one?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Forrest
> 
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