ps Explaination

[George Nikoloudis_1]

Can you explain to me what the flags means:
1003 ,143, etc

[Alan Casey]

I think you are refering to the process id.
Each process is identified by this, and this is what you would use to kill or interrupt the processes.

[Roger Baptiste]

Hi,

Here is the definition of indvidual flag bits:

Flags (octal and additive) associated with the
process:
0 swapped;
1 in core;
2 system process;
4 locked in core (e.g., for physical
I/O);
10 being traced by another process;
20 another tracing flag;


If you are looking for something specific,
pls get back.

HTH
raj

[John Bolene]

You can look at the man page but simply...

1st field - process starting person
2nd - process id
3rd - parent process
4th - run status
5th - start date
6th - start year
7th - start time
8th - process start command

hope that helped

[George Nikoloudis_1]

OK I know this but what does it mean octal additive for 1003 flag

[Dirk Lutz]

George,

Did you ever get the answer to this question?

Thanks,
Dirk

[Rodney Hills]

Octal additive means that each value listed is an octal value and is to be added together to define the status.

For instance-
A value of "3" would be
1 ; In core
+2 ; system process
=3

HTH

-- Rod Hills