How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[Charles Howse]

On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:31 PM, Charlie Kravetz wrote:

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

I learned earlier today that ps doesn't want the dash before the  
options.  It will work, but complains of bad syntax:
$ ps auxwwf > ps.txt