UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi ,

I am new to unix , tell me how can I check which all are the processes which were started by me or under my account , its a multiuser enviornment , I tried with ps -f , but it does not give me the complete answer , it gives me which shells I hv opened like tht , I want the processes like which I started in shell itself like cscope or make or like tht ....

I think tht u can understand my problem with the above #$@ description

-TIA
Vishal

Have you tryied :

Code:

ps --user <user>

thanx for this command . Is it possible for me to view all the details about the process like , if its make than what was the file I was making ... and so as with other such commands.

-TIA

It's hard to tell what make's doing from watching make in ps, there's no "I AM NOW DOING Z" string that it constantly changes for your convenience. On some systems you might be able to tell what a process is waiting on, if anything, but that doesn't sound quite like what you're after. You can see the commands it spawns as it does things, though. These are often short-lived and easy to miss from a single ps listing. Try 'top -u user' to watch things more realtime-like.

truss command can help you to find out the behaviour of a process.
Take the process id and do truss on it.

Check man pages for truss