Very Computer

> "ps ef" does not work at all, and "ps aux" does not give me all of the
> processes.  Up until the middle of last week, all of this worked just
> fine.

> I am usisng the ps command as myself and as root.

> Logged in as root with ps ef I get:

> "ps ef" does not work at all, and "ps aux" does not give me all of the
> processes.  Up until the middle of last week, all of this worked just
> fine.

> I am usisng the ps command as myself and as root.

> Logged in as root with ps ef I get:

>   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
>  1322   1 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  1323   2 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  1324   3 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  1325   4 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  1326   5 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  1327   6 S    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 HOME=/ TERM=linux
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/
>  4036  ?  S    0:00 db2wdog                                        
> HOME=/home/d
>  4038  ?  S    0:00 db2gds                                        
> HOME=/home/d
>  7598  ?  S    0:00 login -- lbittle
>  7650  ?  S    0:00 su - PWD=/home/lbittle REMOTEHOST=191.10.20.76
> HOSTNAME=linu
>  8553  ?  R    0:00 ps ef PWD=/root HOSTNAME=linux2
> DB2INSTANCE=db2inst1 LD_LIBR

> logged in a myself I get:

>   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
>  8628  ?  R    0:00 ps ef PWD=/home/lbittle REMOTEHOST=191.10.20.76
> HOSTNAME=lin

> Using top I get:

>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>  7962 root      19   0  1336 1336   836 R    10.3  0.2   0:03 top
>  4739 root       9   0 85140  82M  5496 S     9.8 16.5   0:32 java
>  1339 root      12   0 78736  12M  2732 S     1.2  2.4   0:40 X
>  4366 root      10   0 70536  68M  4604 S     1.2 13.7   0:43 java
>  4368 root       9   0 70536  68M  4604 S     0.3 13.7   0:06 java
>  1583 root       9   0  3928 3928  2048 S     0.1  0.7   0:03 sawfish
>  1607 root       9   0  5444 5444  4000 S     0.1  1.0   0:01 panel
>  1721 root       9   0  4048 4048  3336 S     0.1  0.7   0:01
> tasklist_applet
>     1 root       8   0   520  520   452 S     0.0  0.1   0:04 init
>     2 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 keventd
>     3 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> kapm-idled
>     4 root      19  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00
> ksoftirqd_CPU0
>     5 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
>     6 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00
> kreclaimd
>     7 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 bdflush
>     8 root       9   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00 kupdated
>     9 root      -1 -20     0    0     0 SW<   0.0  0.0   0:00
> mdrecoveryd

> Notice the java process #4739, it does not show up using "ps ef" or
> "ps aux".

> I installed tcpdump and tcptrace on Friday, that was all of my
> changes.

>> "ps ef" does not work at all, and "ps aux" does not give me all of the
>> processes.  Up until the middle of last week, all of this worked just
>> fine.

>> I am usisng the ps command as myself and as root.

>> Logged in as root with ps ef I get:

> I think what you want is 'ps -ef' not 'ps ef'.

>>>"ps ef" does not work at all, and "ps aux" does not give me all of the
>>>processes.  Up until the middle of last week, all of this worked just
>>>fine.

>>>I am usisng the ps command as myself and as root.

>>>Logged in as root with ps ef I get:

>>I think what you want is 'ps -ef' not 'ps ef'.

> yup, ps -ef and ps -aux (and possibly ps -auxww)

> pstree and ps -awufx are also interesting.