mailscanner status command

[Nick Phillips]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 11:27:59AM +0100, Martin Sapsed wrote:

>   679 ?        S      0:00 [sendmail]
>
> in a process listing so your status command doesn't see it. I've just
> verified that it's working by sending a message to myself. Why do ps
> entries sometimes go like this?

In a situation where you've asked ps to show arguments etc., it goes like
that to indicate that it can't, for whatever reason. That's what POSIX
says it's supposed to do, anyway...

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