[ILUG] A little grep mystery

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

set up an alias for ps...

steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Niall O Broin [mailto:niall at linux.ie]
Sent: 04 June 2002 09:05
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] A little grep mystery


I have a box running the Communigate mail server and an extract from ps -ef
on that box looks like

root       727   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:19
/usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGServer
root       728   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:00
/usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGServer

yet when I do   ps -ef|grep CGServer  I get just this


root      7429  7377  0 09:38 pts/7    00:00:00 grep CGServer

Any ideas ?

but in the interim (i.e. while writing this) I piped the output through cat
and got

root       727   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:19
/usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGSe
root       728   584  0 Apr11 ?        00:00:00
/usr/local/sbin/CommuniGate/CGSe

and then I remembered this being discussed here recently - ps
'intelligently' cutting its output at column 80 if STDOUT is not a tty. ps
-efw saves the day but is there any way of stopping ps from doing this
permanent basis via an environment variable or a configuration option. As
sure as eggs is eggs, this will catch me again in 6 months time.



Niall


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