S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > Since then I have always used the following when searching for a string > in a ps listing, assuming that the search string is sys: > > $ ps -eadf | grep [s]ys > root 1604 1 0 12:08 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng > > here is one that doesn't work: > > $ ps -eadf | grep sys > root 1604 1 0 12:08 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng > sherwin 14316 14297 0 20:53 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto sys > > HTH
I usually just use "ps -C syslog-ng", since I normally know the binary that I'm searching for. I think -C is a Linux extension; I don't think it works everywhere. But given that the bootscripts are *for* a Linux system, I don't think there's much harm in using it.
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