>From man page for ps:
Programs swapped out to disk will be shown without command
line arguments, and unless the c option is given, in
parentheses.
pete
> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:55:05 -0400
> From: Gordon Charrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Question about ps
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> Does anyone know why ps sometimes shows a process name in brackets and
> sometimes doesn't? Specifically, I start up portsentry twice, once for
> tcp and once for udp. After a while, instead of ps showing the command I
> used to start it, it will display as "[portsentry]" and I can't figure
> out why.
pete peterson
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