FW: Cannot find process

Dirk Moolman DirkM
Tue Oct 17 06:08:49 PDT 2006


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Subject: RE: FW: Cannot find process

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?

I am using "ps -ef"   - hopefully it works the same on all platforms !  

:-o


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