On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:56, kc9nsa <[email protected]> wrote: > Im trying to do a PS –u for PID's running under certain users. The problem > im having is; the users have numeric usernames ex: 6545 and it won't > display the pids running under numeric usernames. Any text username > displays all the pids running under that username, but not for the numeric > usernames. > > Any thoughts?
THe actual User NAMES are numeric, or are you refering to each user's UID? For example: bladernr@klaatu:~/development/trunks/checkbox$ ps -U bladernr |head -5 PID TTY TIME CMD 334 ? 00:01:50 chrome 2375 ? 00:00:02 gnome-keyring-d 2384 ? 00:00:05 gnome-session 2430 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent bladernr@klaatu:~/development/trunks/checkbox$ ps -U 1000 |head -5 PID TTY TIME CMD 334 ? 00:01:50 chrome 2375 ? 00:00:02 gnome-keyring-d 2384 ? 00:00:05 gnome-session 2430 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent the first one uses my username, the second uses my UID... a 4 digit number. If you have actual user names that are digits, that could be confusing ps as it probably is expecting completely numeric strings to be UID not usernames. So, for example. lests say your sample name (that you provided) is 6545, and if you look through /etc/passwd, you see that hte UID for user 6545 is actually 1002 if you ps -U 1002, you should get a process list for UID 1002, which is the numeric for user name 6545. Does that makes sense? So you could try something with the id command, like this: bladernr@klaatu:~/development/trunks/checkbox$ ps -u `id -u bladernr` |head -5 PID TTY TIME CMD 334 ? 00:01:51 chrome 2375 ? 00:00:02 gnome-keyring-d 2384 ? 00:00:05 gnome-session 2430 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent that tells 'ps -u' to use the output of "id -u bladernr' ... the id command returns the UID for username bladernr. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
