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<chapter id="monitoring">
flags, not just one. In addition, your original invocation of the
<application>postmaster</application> must have a shorter
<command>ps</command> status display than that provided by each
- backend.
+ backend. If you fail to do all three things, the <command>ps</>
+ output for each backend will be the original <application>postmaster</>
+ command line.
</para>
</tip>