On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:24, Sam MacDonald wrote: > No I don't have a fire wall running (thank you James Spinti) > > I did (as root) ps -ef grep | sshd (thank you Johnny Fulcrum) > results > root 27813 27782 0:09:04 tty1 00:00:00: grep sshd > > This is where I get lost because I don't know how to interpret the > output of grep so... Sam, The command is ps -ef | grep sshd You are Pipeing (| = pipe) the output of "ps -ef" through the grep command. "grep sshd" only shows you lines that have the the text "sshd" in them. When you run that command you are actually starting a process which contains the text "grep sshd". thats not the process your looking for :-). If sshd was running you'd get something like this. Process #656 is the ssh daemon. process 8232 results from my "ps -ef | grep sshd" command. $ ps -ef | grep sshd root 656 1 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd tomp 8232 2550 0 10:50 pts/0 00:00:00 grep sshd Is this a redhat distro? If so check out "man chkconfig" to manage what starts at boot time. also "man ps" and "man grep" if you're interested. once you have the man page up you can find out what the -e flag does by typing "/-e". this will search the man page for "-e". then /-f to see what the -f flag is doing. -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list