[volunteers] More daemon fun

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Jul 19 02:26:39 PDT 2009


I wrote:

> Yeah, "ps" is a bit of a mess (in part) because you can use either the
> BSD or System V-style options for it.  I happen to generally just start
> with "-auxw" because that ensures that absolutely everything is
       ^^^^^^
> included, including full command lines (because of "w") -- and I then
> feed it through grep to extract just the part I really care about.

I meant to say "auxw" without the dash.  With the dash is the -other-
style of option-specifying.  Point is, my fingers know the drill when
I'm typing the command, and don't need to think about the details.





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