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Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

list Ryan Novosielski
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:13:14 -0500
Message-Id: <user-079e5396579d@xymon.invalid>

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Try ps -waxxxx (with the number of X's dependent on how much output you
want). This is the same for the "ps" on Solaris that is in /usr/ucb.

=R

Cayo de Moraes wrote:
thanks for this solution guys... now i have to fight a litle bit with
the syntax under Unix AIX 5.3... its unfortunately not the same as in Linux


2009/11/23 Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid

    no, your ps statement was REALLY tiny in the email I responded to.
     In plain text, it looks normal.

    =G=

    From: Sheets, Jerald [user-dc7b196c5161@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-dc7b196c5161@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:59 PM
    To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
    Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
    too long

    Well, I would've figured that if it was wrapping, it would actually
    be easier to find the string he's looking for at the end of the Java
    line.  If it was truncating, he wasn't getting it at all.

    Did I err in that assumption somewhere?

    --j

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Galen Johnson [mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:19 PM
    To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
    Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
    too long

    When they said too long, I didn't think they meant a smaller font
    (those of you who received the previous email in html know what I'm
    talking about. ;-)

    =G=
    From: Sheets, Jerald [user-dc7b196c5161@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-dc7b196c5161@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:32 PM
    To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
    Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
    too long

    Interesting.

    I was just checking out the output in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beeta2, and the
    process listing under "procs" is not truncated at all for me.

    I was about to setup a new check, and see what I could come up with,
    and I happened to catch the Xymon command that was run in that
    process listing, and it was:


    ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd


    Good catch!

    Jerald Sheets
    Sr. Systems Engineer
    CNN News Systems
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    From: Brand, Thomas R. [mailto:user-10a840458972@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-10a840458972@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:27 PM
    To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
    Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
    too long

    From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid
    <mailto:user-92aec3b3c467@xymon.invalid>]
    Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:12 PM
    To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
    Subject: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

    Hello guys,

    im having some problems to monitor processes with a long output
    (most of them are java processes). Hobbit seems to cut the output at
    certain size and i have to look for a string which appears at the
    end of the output.

    where can i change this length limit?


    I had the same problem, also with java processes.

    Assuming you are using Linux, look in the
    ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh, look for the line echo "[ps]"

    Change the 'ps ' command which follows according to your systems
    requirements.
    For example, under SLES, I had to add 'ww' and changee it to:
    ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd


    Tom Brand
    Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely
    wrong, 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying
    for it, or your money cheerfully refunded.

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