On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > > Solaris just doesn't have any mechanisms to work around the
> > > limitation, I guess *shrug* It really sucks when you want to SIGHUP
> > > the "parent process", which, under FreeBSD at least, is the one that
> > > states: -accepting connections, but under Solaris they are *all* the
> > > same :)
> >
> > $ ps -eaf
> > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> > root 0 0 0 Oct 12 ? 0:01 sched
> > root 1 0 0 Oct 12 ? 0:15 /etc/init -
> > ...
> >
> > You'll note the 'PPID' field.
> >
> > 3 guesses what that stands for.
> >
>
> Don't see how this is related to the topic - sorry.
>
> PPID is the parent process ID. sched has no parent (it's a
> kernel pseudo process) and init has sched as father. For all
> other processes the PPID is set to init's PID at the time
> their father dies (you'll see lot's of PPID=1).
>
> But this all has nothing to do with changing the CMD column
> of the ps output from inside a running process.
In Matthew's defence, I think the point he was trying to bring across was
that you should be able to look at hte PPID. sendmail, when you start,
tends to list its PPID as '1'...but, as I showed in my last email, that
doesn't appear to be "unique"...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org