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 | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
