FW: Cannot find process

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006, Dirk Moolman wrote:
>Hi, I have a strange issue.  We run a script in SLES9 (SP3), which runs
>a couple of other scripts and programs, etc.
>
>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.
>
>I have never seen this before.  Any ideas why this would be happening ?

Perhaps your system's been rooted?  Run the command ``rpm -V procps''
which will show anything that's been changed in the package.

I usually use ``ps fax'' which shows a hierarchical list of
processes so one can easily see the parents and their children.

Bill
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