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[phpmonkey <newsletter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

If I run "ps -aux | grep Xorg" I get the error message

"bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html";

which says "According to the POSIX and UNIX standards, the above command
asks to display all processes with a TTY (generally the commands users
are running) plus all processes owned by a user named "x". If that user
doesn't exist, then ps will assume you really meant "ps aux". The
warning is given to gently break you of a habit that will cause you
trouble if a user named "x" were created." which doesn't mean much to me
:o)

Anyway, after the error message it outputs a line that looks like this:
jenny     XXXX     0.0 0.0    3252   YYY pts/0   S+   0.00   grep Xorg

With XXXX a number that is different every time the command is run (and
YYY changes sometimes). Neither killing 3252 nor any of the XXXX numbers
does anything, it says "no such process" each time...

Cheers
Jenny

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