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bug report: hobbit client for solaris can't report zombie process

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list T.J. Yang · Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:18:59 -0500 ·
The existing ps command in hobbit-client-sunos.sh won't report zombie 
processes.
I changed the long ps -A command to just "ps -eaf" and it can report the 
zombie now.

Question is will "ps -eaf" break anything on hobbit server side ?


root at login3> diff hobbitclient-sunos.sh  hobbitclient-sunos.orig
55,56c55,56
< #ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
< ps -eaf
---
ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
root at login3>


T.J. Yang

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list Dave Haertig · Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:32:17 -0600 ·
My guess is "yes".  You can see the way ps was originally called
specifies the output columns.  These are specific columns in a specific
order, and I'm sure the parser on the server side is depending on that.
"ps -eaf" does not spit out the same columns in the same order ... so I
think you're walking on pretty thin ice.

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:19 AM
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Subject: [hobbit] bug report: hobbit client for solaris can't report
zombie process
quoted from T.J. Yang


The existing ps command in hobbit-client-sunos.sh won't report zombie
processes.
I changed the long ps -A command to just "ps -eaf" and it can report the
zombie now.

Question is will "ps -eaf" break anything on hobbit server side ?


root at login3> diff hobbitclient-sunos.sh  hobbitclient-sunos.orig
55,56c55,56
< #ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
< ps -eaf
---
ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
root at login3>


T.J. Yang

http://newlivehotmail.com