Re: ps command: too long usernames show up as numbers?

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It was a previous thread regarding this.
You can find there the explanation :D


Calin

Thanks.  Found it.  Here it is for Rob's benefit (Gmail to the rescue).

Jacques B.

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Jason L Tibbitts III 	
<tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> to For
More options	  Jan 2
"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.


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