On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:06 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > HI ALL, > > i would like to kill old process by jull22 > i m making one shell scripts let us know how will u trace the process. > > nobody 29966 0.0 1.9 84552 39540 ? S Jul22 0:00 > /usr/local/apache/bin/fcgi- -DSSL > nobody 29973 0.3 2.6 133652 54576 ? S Jul22 2:43 > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > nobody 29974 0.3 2.5 132780 53812 ? S Jul22 2:31 > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > nobody 29975 0.3 2.6 134120 55116 ? S Jul22 2:42 > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > nobody 29976 0.3 2.5 131744 52484 ? S Jul22 2:43 > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > date > Sun Jul 23 00:08:41 PDT 2006 > For example say a June month process, How do i recognize that using ps command Try this for a list of PIDs of processes started in June: $ ps uax | awk '$9 ~ /^Jun/ { print $2 }' Paul.