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. ========previous posting on this subject============ 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.