HaywireMac said: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 15:24:32 -0700 (PDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > >> Awesome! That did it - instead of 'nohup -b' I did 'top -b' and it >> does exactly what I was hoping for. > > did you notice, though, that if you compare what is showing on the > root-tail and what shows if you run top and look at what your user is > running, top -b does *not* show all running processes. > > For example, I always have fetchmail running in the background, but the > root-tail coming from top -b did not show it. Is this *because* it's in > the background? > > Weird... >
That is strange... but doesn't the 'b' switch mean 'batch'? Or is 'background' tacked onto that also? Mike
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