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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers ps help Post 302071350 by amro1 on Saturday 15th of April 2006 05:59:48 PM
Old 04-15-2006
here...

If you need to see all processes of all users then depending of version of UNIX you run:

ps -ef for Sytem V clones
or
ps -aux for BSD clones

as list of processes may be long you can use "less" or "more"
ps -ef | less
or
ps -aux | less

another way to observe all processes in an organized way is "pstree" command. Please notice that in some system you have to become root to list all processes. If you became "root", you can review all the processes structures in virtual "proc" filesystem at /proc. Get "UNIX Essentials and UNIX Core" DVD, if you have questions of this sort.

Hope it helps.

Last edited by amro1; 04-15-2006 at 07:12 PM..
 
WHO(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						    WHO(1)

NAME
who -- display who is logged in SYNOPSIS
who [-abdHlmpqrsTtu] [file] who am i DESCRIPTION
The who utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local. Available options: -a Same as -bdlprTtu. -b Time of last system boot. -d Print dead processes. -H Write column headings above the regular output. -l Print system login processes (unsupported). -m Only print information about the current terminal. This is the POSIX way of saying who am i. -p Print active processes spawned by launchd(8) (unsupported). -q ``Quick mode'': List only the names and the number of users currently logged on. When this option is used, all other options are ignored. -r Print the current runlevel. This is meaningless on Mac OS X. -s List only the name, line and time fields. This is the default. -T Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the terminal line: '+' if the terminal is writable; '-' if it is not; and '?' if a bad line is encountered. -t Print last system clock change (unsupported). -u Print the idle time for each user, and the associated process ID. am I Returns the invoker's real user name. file By default, who gathers information from the file /var/run/utmpx. An alternative file may be specified. FILES
/var/run/utmpx SEE ALSO
last(1), mesg(1), users(1), getuid(2), utmpx(5) STANDARDS
The who utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). HISTORY
A who utility appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD
January 17, 2007 BSD
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