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Re: help!! - cfservd stops responding after several hours [OT]
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Jamie Wilkinson |
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Re: help!! - cfservd stops responding after several hours [OT] |
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:06:51 +1000 |
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This one time, at band camp, Sigurd Trygg wrote:
>> Off topic tip, try using:
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>> ps auxw | grep [c]fservd
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>Hey, I always wanted to do that! Reading the man grep (GNU grep
>2.5.1, Linux 2.4, i686), however, I don't understand [how|why] it
>works. I thought "grep abc" and "grep [a]bc" were equal. May I ask
>for an explanation please?
It's a neat trick that stops the grep matching itself.
ps -C cfservd | grep cfservd works equally well though.
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