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From: veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: why no args in ps output?
Message-ID: <1993Jun29.091819.11673@gmd.de>
Sender: veit@mururoa (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References:  <20ol8p$rem@introl.introl.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 09:18:19 GMT
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In article <20ol8p$rem@introl.introl.com>, tim@introl.com (Tim Chase) writes:
|> Simple question:  Why don't I see any command line arguments
|> in the output of "ps alx".  I'm running with all the 0.2.4
|> patches, codrv and sio... if it matters (which I'm sure it
|> doesn't).

Perhaps try ps axlww.

|> 
|> As an aside, what creates the kvm database in /var/run?  It
|> is there, but I've not tracked down what creates it and when.

Should be in /etc/rc, kvm_mkdb or alike.

|> 
|> 					- Thanks
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> Tim Chase		           Introl Corp. Milwaukee, WI USA
|> Email: tim@introl.com		   Phone: +1 (414) 327-7171

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