Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:04:52 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: hmmm@alaska.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user ppp Message-ID: <199609131804.SAA11623@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <3239F50E.D6D@alaska.net> (message from hmmm on Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:58:06 -0700)
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>>>>> "hmmm" == hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> writes: hmmm> -i- don't see a PID for PPP when started as a daemon (-auto) are hmmm> you sure ? actually, httpd doesn't show either. i don't hmmm> believe daemons have PIDs ... They do. The ps command doesn't show them by default, though, because it assumes that regular users will use the command to find out about processes they themselves are running, and not processes that the system's running on its own behalf. And regular users almost always run processes under a controlling terminal. Daemons, however, run without a controlling terminal (which is a Good Thing (tm)). :-) So, you need to tell the ps command to show processes without a controlling terminal. I type this out of habit: ps -auxww The -x tells ps to show procs withot a controlling terminal. Sorry for the lengthy description ... I had too much espresso today! -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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