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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, xiyuan qian wrote:

>  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?
> 
>  Best regaurds!
> 
>  --xiyuan
> 


try:
	ps -xa | grep ppp |grep -v ps


Scot.