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

[Aquarius]

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?

Aq.

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