Tags for ps (was: [Wolves] The good samaritan)

sparkes sparkes at phreaker.net
Wed Feb 18 09:43:28 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 20:57, Aquarius wrote:
> David Goodwin spoo'd forth:
> > Make sure you are running portmap (i.e. "ps -aef | grep portmap" in a 
> 
> Ah, interesting. You see, no-one really knows what the tags to ps
> actually do. So, all, when you want to know if a process is running,
> and you drop to a shell and do "ps <flags> | grep <processname>",
> and you always use the same flags because that's the way you've always
> done it, which flags do you use? David obviously uses "-aef". I myself
> always use "axu" (different flags, no "-"). So what's your ps poison?
I'm a ps -A man myself and use grep to sort out the chaff

> 
> Aq.

sparkes





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