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I was curious if anyone new a command like tail or top to constantly monitor a service as it runs. I'm trying to watch sendmail currently to see who is connecting to it, but would like to have it a little more dynamic than just repeatedly typing ps aux | grep send

is there a good way to constantly keep this running? Thanks guys n' gals

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You can use the watch command along with ps -aux to refresh. watch -n 5 "ps -axf |grep send" will run the ps command every 5 seconds (note the quotes).

slillibri
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  • Great this is the answer, just waiting for the four minutes to chalk down to accept. Thanks slillibri (sp?) – ehime Dec 05 '11 at 23:25
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    I have an alternative use for watch, which is the nastiest hackiest continuous integration ever. `watch git pull` – Tom O'Connor Dec 06 '11 at 00:17