I've tried this previously. I get "ps: illegal option -- o". My man page says that "-o" is XPG4 Only. Several other options are labeled XPG4 only and are unusable as well.

It seems really odd to me that -o wouldn't work, because as far as I can tell, this makes the availabilty of columns like etime useless, because it doesn't come in any of the pre established lists like -l or -f, so I have no way of displaying it.

To give you a better idea of what I do and don't have available here is my usage:

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usage: ps [-edaxzflP] [-u ulist] [-g glist] [-p plist] [-t tlist] [-R prmgroup] [-Z psetidlist]

I don't have root acces to this machine, but is the ps source code somewhere that I could compile it into my home directory? I haven't been able to find the source code anywhere with google, but that would make sense since ps comes with every system.
Gold Fish