Listing Daemon Processes Only

[SteveR77]

I know that I have the ability to use the ps command to list only the processes that have been started by the root by doing the following

ps -efx | grep '^[<tab><space>]*root' | more


Is there a better way to extract just the daemon processes?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

 

[pmcmicha]

You could create list file for all of the daemon process and do this:

for PROC in `cat ${DIR}/list.txt`
do
commands
done

 

[jamisar]

in solaris use the bin ps, not the /usr/ucb/ps, you will find a lot of new features, so
try

/bin/ps -efocomm,pid | grep 'd '

the arg to grep is a lower d followed by a space

 

[MikeLacey]

Pardon me, but it may be better to pick out processes not associated with a terminal, rather than relying on all daemon processes ending with a d (which they don't, really)

Have a look at the output of your ps command, the solaris version lists unnasociated processes like this:

17420 ? 0:06 dtwm

Look for question marks in the second field of the output. Mike
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[jamisar]

Mike: you are 100% right

 

[SteveR77]

Thank you for your feedback everyone.

The information that you have provided has been helpful.

Steve