Ahh you mean, [something].... Not sure why ps does that. Do you mean defunct? If a process is defunct, it says defunct next to it. Brock On 4/4/07, Jeremy White <jwhitenews at gmail.com> wrote: > here is a screen shot: > > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > root 1 0 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 init [2] > root 2 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] > root 3 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] > root 4 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] > root 5 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] > root 6 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [kupdated] > root 18 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0] > root 19 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_1] > root 49 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:02 [kjournald] > root 350 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 udevd > root 467 1 0 Feb21 ? 00:00:00 [khubd] > > The reason that I asking is someone I work with says that the brackets mean > the processes are orphaned. There is noway the brackets mean that. Thanks > for your help. > > On 4/4/07, Brock Noland <brockn at gmail.com> wrote: > > What options do you use to get that output? > > > > On 4/4/07, Jeremy White <jwhitenews at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am looking for an explanation of what the "[,]" mean in the screen > output > > > of the application ps. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://free-sailboat-listings.com > > http://spamdefeator.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- http://free-sailboat-listings.com http://spamdefeator.com