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Old 03-06-2009
Help with back ground scripts...

I have a user that runs a menu driven application, is there a way to see what scripts this application is executing in the back ground?
OS=AIX 4.3
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Old 03-06-2009
find the pid of the process (ps -ax?) and look for child processes... solaris has the "ptree" command but i don't know if there is something similar in aix.

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