On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:20:38PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Needlessly worried. 16891 is a child of 186; you can tell because the > process name is in all caps (you could also tell if you did "ps > fax"). > > 16892 is the child of 16891; it's the script listed in > /etc/cron.d/exim, which runs every 15 minutes.
Thanks! It was the caps that were bothering me. I didn't know that this was a property of child processes in 'ps' ... why is it that /all/ processes aren't in caps, being the children of init? Is it just to differentiate between parent and child where the child is a clone/fork/whatever of the parent? jc
