James Pearson wrote: > Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > >> One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than >> the user (alpha) on the ps command. The /etc/passwd file shows: >> >> theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash >> >> But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid: >> >> 500 9041 8864 0 11:20 pts/1 00:00:00 ps -ef >> >> Allother active users show the user. Ideas? > > > The username is probably more than 8 characters You can work round this by doing something like: ps -e -o user:15,pid,ppid,c,stime,tname,time,cmd this will give a similar output to 'ps -ef' - but with more characters for the username - you might want to play with that number You can also set the environment variable: PS_FORMAT=user:15,pid,ppid,c,stime,tname,time,cmd and then just run 'ps -e' James Pearson