[lug] Finding out who started a process?

Trever C. Trader ttrader at treveronline.com
Thu Dec 14 14:13:58 MST 2000


When you do a 'ps -ef <PID>' then it should tell you the Parent Process ID
(PPID)

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Scott A. Herod wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to find out what processes started another?  I
> just discovered a process started at boot-up that I want to 
> disable, but can't figure out what started it.  All I can do
> right now is kill it afterwards.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 
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