Hi, The "ps -ef" command seems do not list all process in my solaris system. I had login as a system usre "root" and issued the command "ps -ef|wc -l" and it shows that there are 52 processes running, whereas i issued "/usr/ucb/ps aux|wc -l" it shows that there are 178 processes. I can only see 2 user's(root, ora816) process in /usr/bin/ps command. Anyone who can tell me why the "ps -ef" command can't list all processes and what can i do for solving this problem? Thanks!

Install Top . Through the help of top u can see the list of processor . regards K.Karthick

HI, Thanks for your reply! I had checked the permission and ownership for the execuatble "ps", the permission is '-r-sr-xr-x' and its ownership is 'root:sys'. It looks O.K., then i made a check to the unix system package SUNWcsu (pkgchk -v SUNWcsu), there wrer some errors, one of them is a ERROR on the file 'ps', it said "ERROR:/usr/bin/ps file cksum expected actual'. I try to fix it and issue the cmd 'pkgchk -f SUNWcsu'. The error about the ps file is gone, but still have some errors belong to other executable fies. Incredibly, the 'ps' command is working fine, everything seems perfect! I do not know whats make the ps file checksum error, any suggestion? Thanks!