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Re: PSID



Ira Abramov wrote:

> > > how would it be possible to determine which ps id the next program will
> > > take, for example if i'm loading pppd and i'd like to know what psid
> > > will or has pppd taken?
> >
> > Just
> >       ps -aux | grep pppd | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'
> > and smile ;)
> 
> you are assuming only one pppd runs on the system... how about a few
> cyclades cards? one pentium 133 with enough memory can serve ppp to 128
> lines...

okay, so put a sort by date and tail the last entry before that awk.

gy