How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[NoOp]

On 03/11/2009 06:47 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> $ 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?
>> 
> 
> I'm sorry, this confuses me. It looks like your asking how to re-direct
> to a file, but my brain grinds to a halt because:
> 
> 1. who you are.
> 
> 2. you answer the question yourself next paragraph down.
> 

I was getting confused by the resulting error msg from:

$ ps -auxwwf > ps.txt
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
http://procps.sf.net/faq.html

thinking that is wasn't actually piping the output to the file. But as
you've pointed out in another post in this thread, it does work after
all :-)