Re: help!! - cfservd stops responding after several hours [OT]

[John Borwick]

Sigurd Trygg wrote:
> > Off topic tip, try using:
> >
> >    ps auxw | grep [c]fservd

Another good method, at least for some versions of "ps":

ps -C cfservd

> 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?

"[c]fservd" matches the string "cfservd" but not the string "[c]fservd".

Yours,
John
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           John Borwick
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