[NTLUG:Discuss] What is this?

[Wayne Dahl]

Thanks Rev and Mark.  You've relieved my mind.  Now that you've told me
what is going on here, I recall a conversation on here from some time
back about using locate and making sure the locate database is updated
periodically.

Which brings me to another question.  The difference between find and
locate is that find has to actually check the files on the disk and
locate checks a database?  Is that what makes locate so much faster? 
I've pretty much given up on find in favor of locate because of the
speed difference. 


> are you familar with reading the processid and parentprocessid columns
> from the ps command?  that is usually a pretty good way of tracing what
> process is running what.

I am familiar with recognizing the process id which is how I kill a
running hung process.  But I do NOT know how to tell the difference
between a parent and child process from the ps command.  I can't tell
which is which.  Perhaps I'm running it without the correct options?  I
usually run it as "ps -A".  Is there another option that would show the
parent/child process ids?


Heheheh...I'm showing my ignorance here, but this is good info for me
and the other Linux newbies on the list.  And even though I've been
using Linux now for a few years, I still consider myself a Linux newbie
because the amount of time I've had to learn it has been something akin
to punctuated equilibrium (in the evolutionary point of view).  I get
bursts of time to spend on it with very little in between.

Thanks for the help guys.

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