I wrote a Perl script I call psmonitor long ago to massage the output of the ps command into a list that tells the parent processes of a searched-for program. I have placed the code (as well as some of my other simple scripts) on my website for easy access.
Here's some sample output:
Here's some sample output:
% psmonitor mysql --------------------------------------- root 11159 0:00.00 con- 0.0 (mysql) --------------------------------------- hmelton 11204 0:00.02 p2 6.0 ./bin/mysql -e insert into status values(53,"7"); writing hmelton 11158 0:00.07 p2 0.4 perl -w /Users/hmelton/bin/mkstatus hmelton 11157 0:00.01 p2 0.0 perl -w /Users/hmelton/bin/status hmelton 11156 0:00.04 p2 0.0 -tcsh (tcsh) hmelton 11029 0:12.15 ?? 6.9 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/ Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_79953921 hmelton 176 73:25.55 ?? 0.3 /System/Library/CoreServices/ WindowServer -daemon root 1 0:00.06 ?? 0.0 /sbin/init --------------------------------------- mysql 362 0:00.44 ?? 0.0 /usr/local/mysql-3.23.51/bin/mysqld root 338 0:00.06 ?? 0.0 sh ./bin/safe_mysqld root 1 0:00.06 ?? 0.0 /sbin/init[robg adds: I broke some of the output lines for a narrower display width...]
•
[3,607 views]

