See all information about all processes, daemons, etc. running on Mac OS X

"Why not try using Activity Monitor? It's buit-in, has a GUI and offers plenty of information.

Here's how it looks:"

"Assuming you're running some variant of Leopard, this script will dump out a big long list of all the aftermarket system augmentations it can find on your system:

http://www.khiltd.com/Downloads/ConsultantsCanary.tar.gz

And this one will dump out a big long list of all the processes with open network connections (very, very slowly):

http://www.khiltd.com/Downloads/lwt.sh

The first one is a double-clickable AppleScript wrapper, the second must be run from the command line and may spew a few errors as well under 10.6. Neither actually does anything beyond reporting the files' existence, so if you want something removed you have to do it yourself."