correct format?

[Craig Tinson]

just saw this..

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[craig at craig]# ps -aux
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.2  0.0  2116  464 ?        S    01:33   0:05 init [5]
etc etc...
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I've used -aux with ps ever since I started to learn about linux (about
9 years ago with slackware) 

I *have* noticed that it doesn't work too well when I go visit a client
of mine that has an old sparc running solaris though.. 

so what gives? never seen this error in previous versions of RH.. am
running FC2 on this machine now so is it a new thing with FC2? 

just curious.. always figured the "-" for "options" was a perfectly good
way to handle things and seems to still be the de-facto on most
commands.. so why is "ps" so different?

Craig


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