FW: Cannot find process

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, 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.
>
> :-o

errr, you're complaining that Sun's stunted ps doesn't work properly in 
Linux?

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