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 (:

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