Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.27+, H06.04+)

ps(1) OSS Shell and Utilities Reference Manual
-W guser=group_name.user_name | group_id:user_id
Displays information on processes created by the user specified by
group_name.user_name or group_id:user_id.
-W loaded pathname
Displays the OSS process identifiers (PIDs) for all processes that have copies of the
loadfile specified by pathname.
-W name=[/E/system_name]/G/process_name
Writes information about the process identified by the path
/E/system_name/G/process_name. The value specified for process_name must begin
with the character immediately following the $ in the Guardian process name.
-W node=system_name
Writes information about processes based on other selection criteria residing in the
remote system identified by system_name. Do not specify the backslash (\) when enter-
ing the system_name value.
The equivalent to the TACL command STATUS \system_name is:
ps -W node=system_name -W all
or
ps -W node=system_name, all
The -W node= option cannot be specified alone. It must be accompanied by one of the
other options. For example:
ps -W node=foxii -W cpu=3
ps -W node=tsii,-W name=/G/cmon
-W prog=[/E/system_name] /G/volume/subvolume/fileid
Displays information about processes that are executing the specified Guardian file.
Remember to specify the Guardian filename using OSS pathname conventions.
-W term=[/E/system_name]/G/terminal_process_name
Displays information on processes that are associated with the specified Guardian ter-
minal.
DESCRIPTION
The ps command displays the current process status.
While the ps command provides a fairly accurate snapshot of the system, ps cannot begin and
finish a snapshot as fast as some processes change state. At times there may be minor discrepan-
cies between the ps command’s output and the actual state of a process.
The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example, RWN. The first letter indicates the
status of the process:
R Runnable process
U Uninterruptible sleeping process
S Process sleeping for less than about 20 seconds
I Idle (sleeping longer than about 20 seconds) process
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