Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040518124953.03277c00@127.0.0.1>
X-Sender: 
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:52:56 -0400
To: alejandro DOT sanchez AT municipia DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems listing tasks under cygwin.
In-Reply-To: <1084866742.40a9c0b605e6e@mail.municipia.com>
References: <1084866742 DOT 40a9c0b605e6e AT mail DOT municipia DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

At 03:52 AM 5/18/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have the following trouble, if I try to do a ps -aux I obtain all the current
>tasks running under cygwin, but sometimes the PID listed is not the right one.
>However trying ps -ef I obtain the right PID of the task.
>
>Anyway if I'm trying to list the tasks under the user system (with the same
>privileges of root) runned out of cygwin, I see the associated PID but I can't
>kill the task, it says something like 'not such PID for the process'.
>
>P.D: To list the tasks in windows I use ps -W -ef under cygwin environment.
>
>Any clue? 


I think you need to start back at the beginning.  Here's what I get:

# ps -aux
ps: user x unknown
# ps --version
ps (cygwin) 1.11
Process Statistics
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
Compiled on Mar 18 2004
# cygcheck -f /bin/ps.exe
cygwin-1.5.9-1

Whatever you're running for 'ps' is not Cygwin's current version at least.


--
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746                     


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/