Unix Information

by D.W. Hyatt

Working With Processes

Here is the actual output of the command:
ps   -aux


USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  0.0   344   52 ?        S    Oct27   0:04 init [4]
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct27   0:00 [kflushd]
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct27   0:04 [kupdate]
root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct27   0:00 [kpiod]
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct27   0:01 [kswapd]
root        59  0.0  0.0   196   48 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd
bin         62  0.0  0.2  1076  328 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /sbin/rpc.portmap
root        64  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct27   0:12 [rpciod]
root        67  0.0  0.1  1432  196 ?        S    Oct27  17:54 /usr/sbin/syslogd
root        70  0.0  0.1  1112  152 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -
root        72  0.0  0.0  1332   72 ?        S    Oct27   0:08 /usr/sbin/inetd
root        74  0.0  0.2  2144  356 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /usr/local/sbin/s
root        76  0.0  0.2  2144  352 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /usr/local/sbin/s
root        78  0.0  1.0  1300 1300 ?        SL   Oct27   0:22 /usr/sbin/xntpd
root        86  0.0  0.5  1956  668 ?        SN   Oct27   0:05 /home/threat/dnet
root        87  0.0  0.2  1172  260 ?        S    Oct27   0:01 /usr/sbin/crond -
daemon      89  0.0  0.0  1180  116 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 
root        96  0.0  0.2  2004  332 ?        S    Oct27   0:04 sendmail: accepti
root       100  0.0  0.0  1088   64 ?        S    Oct27   0:05 gpm -m /dev/mouse
root       102  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty1     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       103  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty2     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       104  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty3     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       105  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty4     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       106  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty5     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       107  0.0  0.0  1048    0 tty6     SW   Oct27   0:00 [agetty]
root       108  0.0  0.3  2628  440 ?        S    Oct27   0:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/xd
root       114  0.0  0.5  1956  668 ?        SN   Oct27   0:03 /home/threat/dnet
root       115  1.0  0.5  1956  668 ?        RN   Oct27 12422:26 /home/threat/dn
root       116  1.0  0.5  1956  668 ?        RN   Oct27 12422:29 /home/threat/dn
agershaf 13115  0.0  0.2  2228  308 ?        S    Oct28   0:01 perl -w ./bg.pl
root     26062  0.0  8.7 46980 11160 ?       S    Nov02  15:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/X 
root     11438  0.0  1.3  2832 1712 ?        S    Nov04   0:00 -:0              
dhyatt   11750  0.0  1.1  2792 1520 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 afterstep
dhyatt   11768  0.0  0.6  2012  820 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 /usr/local/bin/An
dhyatt   11769  0.0  0.9  2548 1212 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 /usr/local/bin/Wh
dhyatt   11773  0.0  0.9  2372 1200 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 xeyes
dhyatt   11774  0.0  0.7  2484 1012 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 /usr/local/bin/Pa
dhyatt   11775  0.0  0.7  2456  980 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 /usr/local/bin/Wi
root     11778  0.0  1.4  2944 1820 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 xterm -bg black -
dhyatt   11779  0.0  0.7  1732  992 pts/0    S    Nov05   0:00 bash
dhyatt   11848  0.0  0.6  1492  768 pts/0    S    Nov05   0:00 vi unix01.html
root     11850  0.0  1.3  2936 1712 ?        S    Nov05   0:00 xterm -bg black -
dhyatt   11851  0.0  0.7  1732  984 pts/1    S    Nov05   0:00 bash
dhyatt   11853  0.0  0.5  2368  732 pts/1    R    Nov05   0:00 ps -aux