not here it doesn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ ps -ef|cut -f1 -d" "|sort|uniq UID apache distcc mysql nick nobody ntp postfix root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ ps -ef|wc -l 158 therefore ps -ef is showing processes run by all users, and 158 of them. I have never understood ps's switches very well , and ps -ef seems to give a different result to ps ef - make sure it is set right in bb?? On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 22:43, steve wrote: > Hi there, > > I've just had my first brush with gentoo, being a RedHat/Fedora/White > box user at home, and Debian at work. I use Big Brother ( http://bb4.com > ) for monitoring stuff, and installed it on a gentoo client. The problem > is that ps -ef returns only locally owned processes for a non superuser > account, and BB uses this to check that various processes are running. > Is there some way that this can be changed? I got a few sniffs from > google that there may be some stuff I can change in /etc/sysctl.conf, > but if someone has already built this wheel... > > Cheers, > > Steve. > > PS. Anyone interested in how to install Oracle 10g on Whitebox ( RHEL > 3.0 clone )? - I won in the end (:
