FW: Cannot find process

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Man-wai CHANG 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.

The user running the script should be able to see their own processes. 
And moreover, what you said is untrue.  Unless they're using some security 
enhanced kernel, normal users should be able to see all processes.

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