ps -fC swatch

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 16:52 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On FC4, I have two swatch daemons
> running, as confirmed with:
>    ps -ef | grep swatch
> but
>    ps -fC swatch
> doesn't return anything.
> Why is this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike.
> 
  
I suspect it is because ps cuts off the output after a limited number of 
characters. So if watch is run by say: /usr/local/bin/test/swatch there
will, not be enough characters to display the swatch. Look at the -W
option to solve the problem.
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