On Friday 10 November 2006 20:07, Stephen Liu wrote: > > $ ps aux > lists all prcocesses which is not an ideal command for my application. > How about something like: $ ps ax | egrep '/apache2|/mysql|/postfix' -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.17-10-generic