FW: Cannot find process

[Vu Pham]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:31 +0200, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> >> When we start the process (it does not run in the background), and
> open
> >> another session, and do a "ps -ef | grep <processname>", the process
> >> does not show.
> >
> >Did you login as root? Only root can see everything.
> 
> 
> Yes, I normally work as the root user (though it is probably not the
> best practise)
> I do this as root - I sometimes write crons that will check if processes
> are running, and if not, start them.    We migrated from Solaris to
> Linux, and on Solaris this worked fine, but now the ps -ef does not work
> properly on our SLES9 system.
> 

Have you tried other options like ps -aux ?
I had similar problem on an old Redhat box.

Vu