[ale] Fwd: ps -ax weird start time

[Lightner, Jeff]

Also –ax is invalid syntax.   The “a” and “x” (in this usage) are BSD style flags so you leave out the dash:

So ”ps ax” will show the cpu “TIME”
ps ax |egrep "TIME|cupsd"
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
2530 ?        Ss   190:11 cupsd

But as previously stated you can see both the “START” time (or date if more than 24 hours ago) and the cpu “TIME” with ps aux:
ps aux |egrep "cupsd|TIME"
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      2530  0.4  0.8  13732  6432 ?        Ss   Sep05 190:11 cupsd

Typically I use SysV style flags which do include the dash:
ps -ef |egrep "TIME|cupsd"
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root      2530     1  0 Sep05 ?        190:11 cupsd

Note:  The “–a” is valid in SysV but not with the “x” option which is for BSD .






From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 7:16 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Fwd: ps -ax weird start time

On 10/01/2013 09:47 PM, Erik Mathis wrote:
The date/time is correct on the box. TZ is UTC.
Has anyone seen this before?

Here is the snipit.

56:53 /usr/local/bin/php

Centos 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64

The time shown in "ps -ax" is cumulative runtime, expressed in minutes:seconds.

With "ps axu", you get two time fields: time (date) started, and cumulative runtime.

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