How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running?

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:28, VeeJay wrote:
> Hallo there
>
> How to check how many prcesses/dæmons are running?
Total number of processes:
ps ax | wc -l

For a specific user:
ps xU <username> | wc -l

Hope this helps,
Pieter