Question about ps display

[Garrett Cooper]

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out why courier imap ssl refuses to display the 
> status of the process.  I've tried adding both check_pidfile and 
> check_process to the startup script, but neither works.
> 
> I think the problem is related to the way ps displays the process.  Even 
> though courierlogger (the parent process) is located in 
> /usr/local/sbin/courierlogger, ps displays it like this:
> 
> 21842  p2  S      0:00.00 [courierlogger]
> 
> Why does ps display the process like this instead of displaying the full 
> path?
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> Senior Information Security Analyst
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

Because the command was in the search path and was invoked as 
"courierlogger" :)?

-Garrett