If you do
  ps aux | grep -i <process name> | awk '{print $9}'   it should display 
the process running time. If you want to see all the details you can 
skip the last pipe awk.

On 7/22/2012 10:50 AM, AZ Pete wrote:
> there a way to determine how a long a given process has 


-- 
*Amit K Nepal
Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE)
omNovia Technologies Inc. <http://www.omnovia.com>
Amit K Nepal <http://www.amitnepal.com>
<http://www.amitnepal.com>*