[NTLUG:Discuss] What is this?

[Rev. wRy]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:58, Wayne Dahl wrote:

> I am familiar with recognizing the process id which is how I kill a
> running hung process.  But I do NOT know how to tell the difference
> between a parent and child process from the ps command.  I can't tell
> which is which.  Perhaps I'm running it without the correct options?  I
> usually run it as "ps -A".  Is there another option that would show the
> parent/child process ids?

pstree  hint:  it's mentioned in 'man ps'

:)
> Thanks for the help guys.

No problem. 

R