news@cullvax.UUCP (Mail and USENET News System maintenance account) (11/04/86)
Has anyone out there written a "system status" program (like ps) that presents things in a better format, like (1) process id, (2) state, (3) user, (4) command, (5) tty, and (6) shows the tree structure of the selected processes. I've written a post-processor for ps that shows the tree structure, but the ps options that I have to use (-xal, or some such) only list the first 14 or so characters of the command, and don't list the user name. Is there a better way, or do I have to do it myself? Dale
bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) (11/05/86)
sps (written principally by J. E. Kulp and J. Robert Ward) is a definite improvement over the obscurity of ps. It shows the structure of process relations as well as the nature of their connections, and refers to process owners by name instead of uid. It was distributed over net.sources some months ago, and currently runs at our site under 4.3BSD. -- Robert Reed, Tektronix CAE Systems Division, bobr@zeus.TEK