How to keep unnecessary processes from starting

[NoOp]

On 03/12/2009 05:01 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> I was getting confused by the resulting error msg from:
>> 
>> $ ps -auxwwf > ps.txt
>> Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
>> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
>> 
> 
> ps is "special".  It takes iirc GNU and BSD options - and while they may
> sometimes be the same letter codes, sometimes they aren't.  So 'a' and '-a'
> are the same, but 'u' and '-u' aren't, and '-u' expects a user id.

Thanks. I'll move to the back of the short bus now :-)