Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 14:30:37 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question about ps display Message-ID: <4650BDFD.2040407@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <0E167714A025990811F5A274@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <0E167714A025990811F5A274@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why courier imap ssl refuses to display the > status of the process. I've tried adding both check_pidfile and > check_process to the startup script, but neither works. > > I think the problem is related to the way ps displays the process. Even > though courierlogger (the parent process) is located in > /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger, ps displays it like this: > > 21842 p2 S 0:00.00 [courierlogger] > > Why does ps display the process like this instead of displaying the full > path? > > Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) > Senior Information Security Analyst > The University of Texas at Dallas > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ Because the command was in the search path and was invoked as "courierlogger" :)? -Garrett
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