[root@issues ~]# ps -ax
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:00 init [3]                         
    2 ?        S      0:00 [migration/0]
    3 ?        SN     0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 ?        S      0:00 [watchdog/0]
    5 ?        S<     0:00 [events/0]
    6 ?        S<     0:00 [khelper]
    7 ?        S<     0:00 [kthread]
    8 ?        S<     0:00 [xenwatch]
    9 ?        S<     0:00 [xenbus]
   20 ?        S<     0:00 [kblockd/0]
   54 ?        S<     0:00 [aio/0]
   60 ?        S<     0:00 [kseriod]
   53 ?        S      0:00 [kswapd0]
   93 ?        S<     0:00 [kpsmoused]
   97 ?        S      0:00 [kjournald]
  198 ?        S<s    0:00 udevd
  484 ?        Ss     0:00 syslogd -m 0
  486 ?        Ss     0:00 klogd -x
  519 tty2     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
  520 tty3     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
  521 tty4     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
  522 tty5     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
  523 tty6     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
  627 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
  706 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: ken [priv] 
  708 ?        S      0:00 sshd: ken@pts/0  
  709 pts/0    Ss+    0:00 -bash
  835 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: am [priv]  
  837 ?        R      0:01 sshd: am@pts/1   
  838 pts/1    Ss     0:00 -bash
  888 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
  965 ?        S      0:00 [pdflush]
 2731 pts/1    S      0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --defaults-file=/etc/my.
 2761 pts/1    Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --basedi
 3492 ?        S      0:00 [pdflush]
 3678 pts/1    S      0:00 su -
 3679 pts/1    R      0:00 -bash
 3856 pts/1    Sl     0:03 /usr/lib/jvm/sun-java-1.5.0_07/jre/bin/java -Xms128m
 3924 pts/1    R+     0:00 ps -ax