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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Subject: Re: User limit under A/UX (and weird ps)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.071458.6781@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:14:58 GMT
- References: <1992Sep07.023844.21717@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Bu8M1C.4v7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) writes:
- >ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
- >> Another question: since upgrading to 3.0 ps in csh seems to be broken --
- >> without options, it only prints the header. Something like ps -ef still
- >> works fine, but when I want to see just my processes, it doesn't show
- >> anything... Is this a feature? Sorry if it's in FAQ -- I must have missed
- >> it.
-
- >This only happens, I think, when you log in from a serial line (& perhaps
- >the console). I just checked that A/UX does show your processes when you
- >telnet in. It's probably related to the fact that A/UX show processes
- >related to your current tty, where in BSD-derived Unixes, ps is usually
- >equivalent to ps -u $user.
-
- It happens because there are alternate device nodes for tty0 and tty1, known
- as "modem", and "printer" and "iw2". Get rid of those and all will be OK.
-
- This bug was reported in 1.1.1...
-
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