How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:26:48 -0700
NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 03/10/2009 08:21 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net>
> > wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I have 8.10-server-i386 running in command-line only.
> >> Surely some of the processes below are unnecessary.
> >> What's the best way to separate the wheat from the chaff?
> > 
> > Well, I don't know too much how to help - since your wheat might be
> > our chaff :-)
> > e.g. if you are not running a mail server some of that stuff is
> > chaff
> > - but if you are, it's wheat.
> > It doesn't look that bad to me.
> > 
> > ps -auxwwf is much more readable for me for that task, and shows
> > association. If it's in square brackets leave it alone :-)
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> 
> $ ps -auxwwf | more
> makes it easier to view/read via the terminal. Do you know of a way to
> get that to pipe to a text file?
> 

What I use when working with developers and filing bugs:
  $ ps -auxwwf > ps.txt

> A simple pstree usually works for me:
> 
> $ pstree -pah|more
> 
> or you can pipe it to a text file to view:
> 
> $ pstree -pah > pstree.txt
> $ gedit pstree.txt
> 
> 
> 
> 


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