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Old 07-03-2002
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On the most unix flavours the -f(ull) option will show the PPID

like
/logs: ps -f
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
net400 24032 24268 2 17:02:15 pts/0 0:00 ps -f
net400 24268 13026 0 16:37:04 pts/0 0:00 -csh
/logs: