On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote: > *sigh*. ps really needs a pgrp field. Huh?! When I type `ps -ax -O pgid', I get PID PGID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 0 ?? DLs 0:00.12 (swapper) 1 1 ?? Is 0:00.07 init 2 0 ?? DL 0:00.01 (pagedaemon) 3 0 ?? DL 0:02.08 (reaper) [etc.] cjs