correct format?
Christopher Stone
chris.stone at gmail.com
Mon May 31 01:40:57 UTC 2004
>From the FAQ URL shown in the error message:
According to the POSIX and UNIX standards, the above command asks to
display all processes with a TTY (generally the commands users are
running) plus all processes owned by a user named "x". If that user
doesn't exist, then ps will assume you really meant "ps aux". The
warning is given to gently break you of a habit that will cause you
trouble if a user named "x" were created.
On Mon, 31 May 2004 02:16:12 +0100, Craig Tinson <craig at 8010.co.uk> wrote:
>
> just saw this..
>
> ------------------------
> [craig at craig]# ps -aux
> Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.2 0.0 2116 464 ? S 01:33 0:05 init [5]
> etc etc...
> ------------------------
>
> I've used -aux with ps ever since I started to learn about linux (about
> 9 years ago with slackware)
>
> I *have* noticed that it doesn't work too well when I go visit a client
> of mine that has an old sparc running solaris though..
>
> so what gives? never seen this error in previous versions of RH.. am
> running FC2 on this machine now so is it a new thing with FC2?
>
> just curious.. always figured the "-" for "options" was a perfectly good
> way to handle things and seems to still be the de-facto on most
> commands.. so why is "ps" so different?
>
> Craig
>
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