On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:36:22PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > 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?
It's not a property of ps ... it's a property of cron. Not in the docs of course ... I remember seeing a discussion about it on d-devel a while back :) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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