[plug] funny process name

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Sep 30 12:07:03 WST 2003


On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:52:41AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| (-:0 doesn't ring a bell off the top of my head.)

That's just as well really; depending on how loud the bell was that
could be quite unpleasant. *grin*

| Try adding an 'f' option to ps, or using pstree, to investigate the
| parentage of that process (eg: `ps afuwx | less`).

Oooh, I'd never heard of either of those before today.  Cheers! :)  BTW,
"ps afuwx | w3m" works a bit better as unlike less, w3m doesn't wrap
long lines.

Cameron.

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