27-Mar-02 at 08:09, David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > % > Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > % > > I don't use ps. Or any replacements. > % > > % > why ever not? > % > % Because I don't really know what it is, what it does, or why I'd ever > % want to use it. > > ps is "process status" or something like that, and it shows you what's > going on in your system. Think "top" without all of the overhead of top. > It's really quite handy, especially if you ever want to kill a job.
Handier still for parsing to find out if a process is running, and to HUP / kill it if necessary, or restart a daemon if ps doesn't report that it runs. -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:57.12% see www.mersenne.org] It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- E. W. Dijkstra [Arbitrary quotes signature rotation, a simple bash script by Simon White]
