On 4/10/07, John Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Ted. I get: > > 4171 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep ntpd > > Does that mean it is running?
Nope, it doesn't, surprisingly enough. That says you were in the middle of running the command ' grep ntpd' > What does that command (ps ax|grep ntpd) mean? ps lists the processes that are running. 'ax' are flags, modifiers to what ps displays. You can issue 'man ps' at the command line to find out what they mean. Grep is a command to search through the output it is handed (the | called 'pipe' redirects the output of ps into the input of grep). 'man grep' will tell you more about that, although there are entire books on the 'regular expressions' (search patterns) grep is capable of using, you can usually just put what you're looking for after the grep command. In this case I was looking for the daemon (server) of the network time protocol, cleverly called ntpd. Getting ntpd started and configuring it to start on system startup can be done in a bunch of ways. Which distribution are you running - RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
