[lug] Finding out who started a process?

[Tim Fredrick]

There's an interesting little graphical "ps" utility called "xps"
It's shows a tree starting from the "init" process showing what
process spawned what.  And you can click on the various processes
to manage them (renice, kill, etc.).

The utility is from

http://www.netwinder.org/~rocky/xps-home/

(there was a paper on it at the LISA-2000 conference).

Hope that helps!  --Tim Fredrick (fredrick at acd.ucar.edu)

> 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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