XWin shows in ps -a but not in ps

I have XWin running and it shows up as a process under ps -a but not under ps I think this behaviour is recent: certainly it has perturbed what were previously well-behaved scripts. Supplementary: I was basically using ps | grep in a script to query whether XWin was running. Am I correct

Re: XWin shows in ps -a but not in ps

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/2010 05:01 AM, Fergus wrote: I have XWin running and it shows up as a process under ps -a but not under ps Time for another round of the blame game! What's happening is that your shell is getting instantiated on a new vty. Even on my