On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 13:46 -0500, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > Roger wrote: > > > > ps aux |grep psql shows > > Home_user 5734 0.0 0.0 109180 872 pts/0 S+ 21:10 0:00 grep --color=auto psql > > it seems to be finding the fedors user login. > > It's finding the grep command itself. A trick to avoid that is to put one of > the characters of your search term inside square brackets as follows: > > $ ps aux | grep [n]otaprocess > $ ps aux | grep notaprocess > mroth 14945 0.0 0.0 61176 776 pts/2 S+ 14:21 0:00 grep notaprocess Or use pgrep. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org