On 11/11/2013 05:53, Dale wrote: >> Only one Firefox process exists. (I can't seem to prevent the grep >> > command from listing itself). > > I don't know whether to say you are wrong or on to something. LOL When > I have three sessions running here, I get this: > > root@fireball / # ps aux | grep /usr/bin/firefox > dale 956 16.7 1.6 1461568 267380 ? Sl 21:35 0:08 > /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote > root 9148 0.0 0.0 10820 944 pts/2 S+ 21:36 0:00 grep > --colour=auto /usr/bin/firefox > dale 18079 5.1 6.1 2396368 1016416 ? Sl 19:00 7:59 > /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote > dale 18394 2.0 5.1 2082772 839044 ? Sl 19:05 3:05 > /usr/bin/firefox -p -no-remote > root@fireball / #
You are looking at the process list without any information about parent and child processes. Use pstree or pc with the -f option to see what is really going on -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
