Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote:
> You can past the command below into a console window to see what you
> get. You can also continue to work in other console windows while
> updating the system.
>
> ps -el | grep synaptic
>
> Also, you might check your messages log file to see if anything is going on. The below command works on Fedora 8 where "-n 20" is the last 20 lines in the message file, and the standard output to the console is redirected to a file named "pete". The "vi pete" command lets you see the output of the previous command in the vi editor.
>
> cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 20 > pete
> vi pete
Hi Leland!
root@0[Pete]# ps -el | grep synaptic
4 S 0 12505 12504 0 75 0 - 13484 - ? 00:00:57 synaptic
1 S 0 15471 12505 0 75 0 - 13457 - pts/4 00:00:00 synaptic
root@0[Pete]#
root@0[Pete]# cat /var/log/messages | tail -n 20 > pete
root (AT) 0[Pete]#
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Pete
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