Using ps by itself will not get you much in the way of info, try 'ps
-a' or 'ps -aj' or ... (without the 'quotes'.)
the -a and -j options tells ps to print more information.
Type 'man ps' and you will be given a lot of info, several pages, hit
the space bar to go to the next page. There are lots of options there
to use.
To answer that almost - but still unasked question, you are using a
shell when you are running Terminal. A shell is a command line window
that allows you to talk to the operating system in a very personal and
meaningful manner (and some folks think ... smile)
Jerry
p.s. From what you have listed, I can tell you that you were running
TSCH instead of BASH for your terminal shell, are you by chance running
10.2?
On Feb 19, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Alex W. wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>> A quick test is to open a shell and type ps to see the processes that
>> are running in your session. If there's something running you don't
>> recognize, ask us here what it is.
>>
> Just for the sake of curiosity, I just tried to do this. I think I
> don't know what a "shell" is -- I opened Terminal, typed ps <return>,
> and this was the result:
>
> Last login: Thu Feb 19 22:53:36 on console
> Welcome to Darwin!
> [iMac:~] alexwhit% ps
> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 754 std S 0:00.04 -tcsh
> [iMac:~] alexwhit%
>
> I had closed all the obvious applications, but surely there must be
> stuff (Palm Desktop or Virex, perhaps?) going on in the background.
>
> Is a shell different from Terminal?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex Whitman
>
>
>
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