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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Processes in parens? Date: 28 Oct 1996 23:14:26 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <553eoi$1do@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <550res$9ie@news.zipnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E steve@zip1.zipnet.net (Steve Bernacki) wrote: > For some reason, all process names on our 2.1.5-RELEASE box have > parens around every command in either a ps or w output. Example: > > root 29492 ?? (ftpd) > zafiro 11383 p0 (bash) > zafiro 11390 p0 (irc-2.8) mount /procfs -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)