On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:26:32 -0700 (PDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) uttered:

> 
> Isn't root-tail some feature of reiserfs? Or am I missing sometning
> here?

No, it's a package which displays the contents of a file on your root
window, kinda cool.

> According to 'man top' it seems -b just sends lines of top through to
> stdout until a limit has been reached or until the process is killed.

Like I say, when I run top -b > file, it shows me all running processes,
and continues to do so until I kill it, hence the rather rapid growth
of the size of the file I created, LOL!

Here is the content of the file, at least one entry of it, the whole
thing is several hundred lines since top refreshes every few seconds by
default.

top - 17:44:58 up 2 days, 18:04,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04,
0.05 Tasks:  70 total,   1 running,  69 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0
zombie Cpu(s):   9.9% user,   3.0% system,   0.1% nice,  87.0% idle
Mem:    384600k total,   341612k used,    42988k free,    17652k buffers
Swap:   811240k total,    10916k used,   800324k free,   242096k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  Command    
                                                                    7224
joehill   17   0   880  880  688 R  1.9  0.2   0:00.05 top              
                                                                 1 root 
     4   0   104   76   56 S  0.0  0.0   0:04.78 init                   
                                                           2 root     
10   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.94 keventd                    
                                                       3 root       9  
0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kapmd                           
                                                  4 root      19  19    
0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.25 ksoftirqd_CPU0                        
                                            5 root       9   0     0   
0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:08.09 kswapd                                     
                                       6 root       9   0     0    0   
0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 bdflush                                         
                                  7 root       9   0     0    0    0 S 
0.0  0.0   0:00.08 kupdated                                             
                             8 root      -1 -20     0    0    0 S  0.0 
0.0   0:00.00 mdrecoveryd                                               
                       12 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.71 kjournald                                                       
                 86 root       9   0   876  728  664 S  0.0  0.2  
0:00.48 devfsd                                                          
                175 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 khubd                                                           
                315 root       9   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:10.10 kjournald                                                       
                636 root       8   0    84   52   36 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 ifplugd                                                         
                708 root       8   0   648  480  404 S  0.0  0.1  
0:00.01 dhclient                                                        
                768 rpc        9   0    68    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 portmap                                                         
                782 root       9   0   228  180  124 S  0.0  0.0  
0:03.65 syslogd                                                         
                790 root       9   0   996  164  152 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.19 klogd                                                           
                833 rpcuser    9   0    88    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 rpc.statd                                                       
                925 xfs        9   0  4480 2736 2056 S  0.0  0.7  
0:01.99 xfs                                                             
                963 daemon     9   0   124  104  100 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 atd                                                             
                984 root       9   0   200    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 saslauthd                                                       
                994 root       9   0   200    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 saslauthd                                                       
                995 root       9   0   200    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 saslauthd                                                       
                996 root       9   0   200    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 saslauthd                                                       
                998 root       9   0   200    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 saslauthd                                                       
               1016 daemon     9   0   200  172   88 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.77 tmdns                                                           
               1043 root       9   0   148    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 xinetd                                                          
               1072 root       9   0  1032  440  304 S  0.0  0.1  
0:00.13 cupsd                                                           
               1179 root       9   0   144  116   92 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.19 rwhod                                                           
               1189 root       9   0   264  244  212 S  0.0  0.1  
0:00.01 rwhod                                                           
               1275 root       8   0   408  188  128 S  0.0  0.0  
0:02.07 master                                                          
               1293 postfix    9   0   676  468  384 S  0.0  0.1  
0:00.88 nqmgr                                                           
               1320 root       8   0   156  120   80 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.02 crond                                                           
               1337 root       8   0  3912  744  448 S  0.0  0.2  
0:00.03 miniserv.pl                                                     
               1361 root       8   0   468  408  332 S  0.0  0.1  
0:00.02 lisa                                                            
               1471 root       9   0    44    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 mingetty                                                        
               1472 root       9   0    44    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 mingetty                                                        
               1473 root       9   0    44    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 mingetty                                                        
               1474 root       9   0    44    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.00 mingetty                                                        
               1475 root       9   0    44    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.01 mingetty                                                        
              18713 joehill    9   0   272    4    4 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.10 ssh                                                             
              23343 root       9   0   232    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  
0:00.04 login                                                           
              23387 joehill    9   0   988  696  564 S  0.0  0.2  
0:00.08 bash                                                            
               4661 joehill    9   0  1524 1524 1220 S  0.0  0.4  
0:00.37 fetchmail                                                       
               5971 joehill    9   0  5552 5552 1948 S  0.0  1.4  
0:00.64 gconfd-2                                                        
               6725 postfix    9   0  1444 1444 1180 S  0.0  0.4  
0:00.01 pickup                                                          
               7039 joehill    9   0  1200 1200  936 S  0.0  0.3  
0:00.01 startx                                                          
               7050 joehill    9   0   624  624  548 S  0.0  0.2  
0:00.00 xinit                                                           
               7051 root      12   0  283m  27m 4224 S  0.0  7.3  
0:08.54 X                                                               
               7056 joehill    8   0  1160 1160  904 S  0.0  0.3  
0:00.02 sh                                                              
               7060 joehill    9   0  8656 8656 3468 S  0.0  2.3  
0:01.51 idesk                                                           
               7061 joehill    9   0  6796 6796 4616 S  0.0  1.8  
0:00.44 gkrellm                                                         
               7062 joehill    9   0  2012 2012 1652 S  0.0  0.5  
0:00.16 xscreensaver                                                    
               7063 joehill    9   0  1340 1340 1128 S  0.0  0.3  
0:00.03 wmsmixer                                                        
               7064 joehill    9   0  1032 1032  884 S  0.0  0.3  
0:00.00 wmclockmon                                                      
               7066 joehill    9   0  2204 2204 1688 S  0.0  0.6  
0:00.15 pekwm                                                           
               7074 joehill    8   0  1144 1144  892 S  0.0  0.3  
0:00.02 start                                                           
               7076 joehill    9   0  5572 5572 3628 S  0.0  1.4  
0:00.45 sylpheed                                                        
               7077 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:02.99 galeon-bin                                                      
               7120 joehill    9   0  2452 2452 1884 S  0.0  0.6  
0:00.16 bonobo-activati                                                 
               7122 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:00.00 galeon-bin                                                      
               7123 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:00.00 galeon-bin                                                      
               7124 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:00.00 galeon-bin                                                      
               7125 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:00.00 galeon-bin                                                      
               7127 joehill    9   0 26164  25m  17m S  0.0  6.8  
0:00.00 galeon-bin                                                      
               7173 postfix    9   0  1432 1432 1168 S  0.0  0.4  
0:00.01 proxymap                                                        
               7175 postfix    9   0  1448 1448 1176 S  0.0  0.4  
0:00.02 trivial-rewrite                                                 
               7183 joehill    9   0  3636 3636 2272 S  0.0  0.9  
0:00.15 Eterm                                                           
               7184 joehill   13   0  1564 1564 1092 S  0.0  0.4  
0:00.04 bash           

but on the root window, only a few of them appear, no root processes,
and only a few of my user processes.

It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle surrounded by an enigma... ;-)

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