how to see the running background process?

[daniesh]

Hello Experts,
I need to know how i will know see that which process in running in background?

[kveldulf980]

Depends on what you are using. In gnome, Applications > System Tools > System Monitor. In KDE it should be roughly the same. In a console there a few different ways to go about it, none of them particularly easy. Hope that helps a little. More information would make it easier to answer.

[Freston]

Depends on what you mean by background. Are these commands you send to the bbackground by appending ' &' to them? Then 'jobs'

If you just want to know what's running on the system, different versions of 'ps' (like ps aux) do the trick, or 'top'. I'm just realizing that I don't know how to do it from the GUI.



Hmmmm.... how _do_ you monitor processes from the GUI??
(I'd check, but I'm not running my own system atm)

[daniesh]

i know that command ps – ef |grep su it shows the process running in background. i am missing something in the above command.what i am missing that i am able recollect please help me on this?

[daniesh]

Even i dont know how to do it from GUI. top command all the process running . i am talking about that which we run using &.

[Freston]

In that case 'jobs' is the command you're looking for I think?