On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 01:28:19PM -0700, John Starkey wrote: > I've been using ps ax and have a couple questions. > > The first number-- the "PID". Is that the port #? PID stands for Process IDentification. It has no relation to port number that I've ever heard of. > How are these assigned? They are assigned sequentially by the system as I remember. > And there is an entry right now that I don't remember seeing: > > 676 ? S 0:00 in.identd -e -o > > It is in there 11 times. From 676 to 686. That means there are 11 copies of in.identd running, with IDs of 676 through 686. I'm not very familiar with identd, so I have no idea if it's usual for there to be that many copies. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?" ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!" '91 GS500E | Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
