>>>>> "MY" == Michael Yep <myep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: MY> I figured as much. I just found it odd to be a numeric id instead MY> of the user name The name is too wide to fit into the eight-character column, so ps shows it numerically. (Truncating it would be rather bad.) I set PS_FORMAT=user:10,pid,%cpu,%mem,vsz,rss,tty,stat,start,time,command so "ps ax" shows the full name. - J<