From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 17 02:23:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA02605 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA02599 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA21880; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970917022302.25738@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:23:02 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: xiyuan qian Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sorry to ask a freebsd-question question! References: <199709171650.QAA05561@npc.haplink.co.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199709171650.QAA05561@npc.haplink.co.cn>; from xiyuan qian on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 04:50:18PM +0000 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk xiyuan qian scribbled this message on Sep 17: > Hi, I know "ps -ax | grep ppp" can find the ppp running's pid, but when I do > that, it sometimes show me > 616 .... ppp > 716 .... ps -ax | grep ppp > or sometimes it only show me > 616 ....ppp > Why? How can I deny the "ps -ax | grep ppp" showing out? use grep to filter out any lines with grep: ps ax | grep ppp | grep -v grep -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD