'ps' behavoir in Linux - Was - Re: array limits

[Jerry Rains]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 20:21, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Jerry Rains wrote:
> [...]
>
> > This brings up a point I have been meaning to post for a while.  Brians
> > ps command works fine on SCO5.0.5 but on SuSE8.2
> >
> > ps -eo args | grep dclerk   returns
> >
> > [dclerk]
> >
> > This gives me no idea which filePro file or what process table is being
> > run. I looked through 'man ps', but I found no other argument that did
> > any better.
>
> I don't have SuSE here, but I've seen these flag combinations on different
> *nix systems over the years:
>
>     ps -axf
>     ps -edalf

No luck.  The portion of the line dedicated to the dclerk command is still 
[dclerk] for both of these.  In the man pages it talks about the 
PS_PERSONALITY environment variable.  It has lots of modes, one of them being 
'sco' but none of them show the /appl/fp/ much less the filePro filename, and 
the rest of the real arguments.


jmrains at Coastal:~> ps -eo args | grep dclerk
[dclerk]
grep dclerk
jmrains at Coastal:~> ps -edalf | grep dclerk
0 S filepro  27145 27092  0  75   0 -   351 schedu 20:46 pts/2    00:00:00 
[dclerk]
0 S jmrains  27171 27104  0  80   0 -   882 pipe_w 20:53 pts/3    00:00:00 
grep dclerk
jmrains at Coastal:~> ps -axf | grep dclerk
Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'?
27145 pts/2    S      0:00  |   |   \_ [dclerk]
jmrains at Coastal:~>


Jerry