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weird behavior of plink and ps command?
I have a linux computer that I remotely SSH into using plink on a Windows XP machine. I have the Plink program set to execute commands in a script using automated login:
plink -ssh [domain name] -l ...
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What is the meaning of “\_” in output of 'ps ef'?
When I executed ps ef command in a linux server, I saw that one of the command starts with \_.
For example,
\_ /bin/sh /usr/
Could any one please let me know what is the meaning of \_ in this ...
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Find all users who have more than N processes and echo them in shell
I'm writing a script in ksh. I need to find all users who have more than N processes and echo them in the shell. N is read from ksh.
I know that I should use ps -elf, but how do I parse it, find ...
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Linux : See CPU usage by a process for the last second
vmstat 1
Above will print virtual memory statistics each seconds. It will also show the CPU utilization for last second.
I have a web server at hand which runs httpd and MySQL. I need to find how ...
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When was a process started
To know when was a process started, my first guess was to check the time when /proc/<pid>/cmdline was written/modified the last time.
ps also shows a START field. I thought both of these ...
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How can I see a process' thread count? [duplicate]
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Is there a way to see details of all the threads that a process has in Linux?
I want to see the thread count which belongs to a process in linux. What command should I ...
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Look for a process with a given name
I am trying to convert the VMS command show/system/process=processname into an equivalent Linux command.
I tried the following but it returned none of the processes:
ps -C /exeimages/processname.pl ...
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Linux + Solaris how to verify the last execute process from list of process
I need advice:
How to verify which is the last scan_sys.sh process that run in my linux or solaris ?
my target is to kill all scan_sys.sh process , except the latest scan_sys.sh ( the last execute ...
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Bafflingly baroque Debian ps: show threads in forest tree
My favourite ps invocation is:
ps -efww ef
as I need to watch all processes (-e), get extended information about them (-f), see the environment (e) they operate within, wrapping lines (-w -w) so I ...
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Difference between poll_s and ep_poll WCHAN in ps output
When I issue ps -elf|grep python for example on my system, I see these:
1 S 1000 6020 6008 0 80 0 - 9914 poll_s Jul12 ? 00:00:01 python manage.py run_gunicorn -t 3600 -w 8 -b ...
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The TIME field in ps -ef
When I do ps -ef, I see "TIME" field. What does this field mean? From what I understand, this tells the actual CPU time, that the process got (amidst all the context switching). Does the TIME field ...
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Mathematical connection between SZ RSS and VSZ in ps o/p?
I wanted to know what mathematical connection is there between the SZ, RSZ and VSZ output in ps output e.g.
ps -p 2363 -o sz,rss,vsz
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Among “ps” command output fields, %CPU isn't the actual CPU usage of the process?
For example, one of the output fields of this BSD style command, ps aux, is "%CPU". The alternative command, ps -efl outputs the "C" (or CP) field.
As per the ps man page:
%CPU is the cpu ...
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How to list all running X applications?
I'd like to get a list of all of the apps (across all users) on my machine that are talking to the X server. What's the most reliable way to do that? Find the socket X runs on and lsof for connections ...
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Call 'ps' as a normal user in Linux
A brief introduction to my question: the command ps will print the information of system processes.
But when I login as root and change the permission x of ps
chmod -x /bin/ps
chmod u+x /bin/ps
ls ...
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Piping PS output into a Text file
So what im wanting to do is pretty basic.....but im not sure how to go about it.
Lets say I have a program running, but I want to pipe the output of ps -C "ProgramXX" into a file.
Normally Running ps ...
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Solaris ptree style tool for Linux
I'm looking for the Linux tool that will print the same output as the Solaris ptree.
For example:
# ptree 538
538 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
889 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
890 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
1498 ...
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Which to choose - BSD or Unix-style commands where available?
Commands like ps come with a lot of parameters, especially because they give the use an option to choose between Unix and BSD style flags. I hope you get my point here.
So, when there's such an ...
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How can I get a list of long running processes that match a particular pattern?
I know that I can do ps aux | grep cgi to get a list of all cgi scripts currently running, and ps -p [pid] -o etime= can get me the run time for each pid; is there a way to combine the two, or better ...
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killall gives me `no process found ` but ps
Could somebody explain to me the difference between kill and killall? Why doesn't killall see what ps shows?
# ps aux |grep db2
root 1123 0.0 0.8 841300 33956 pts/1 Sl 11:48 0:00 ...
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Show top five CPU consuming processes with `ps`
How to show top five CPU consuming processes with ps?
