Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I just did an experiment. I created a user 'averylongname' and ps does > indeed change this to a number, but ls -l adjusts the column width to > accomodate the long name. Investigating...
Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at line 1018 of ps/output.c: // The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition) // requires that user and group names print as decimal numbers if there is // not enough room in the column, so tough luck if you don't like it. // // The UNIX and POSIX way to change column width is to rename it: // ps -o pid,user=CumbersomeUserNames -o comm // The easy way is to directly specify the desired width: // ps -o pid,user:19,comm // There are a few ways to handle this: 1. Live with it. :) 2. Create an alias for the ps format you want to use and specify a column width you want to use for UID. 3. Specify a format using the PS_FORMAT environment variable. 4. Hack the source. Adding the following code at line 1037 of ps/output.c works: (outbuf+max_rightward) = 0; return max_rightward; -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page