corrupted ps output report? 🔗 link

I just noticed a PROCS report go red and then green on one of the servers I
monitor.

Since the server is an LDAP server, one of the proc tests we monitor for is
simply:

PROC  /usr/lib/openldap/slapd


The procs report page showed:

(red) /usr/lib/openldap/slapd (found 0, req. 1 or more)

The ps output below it it looks to be corrupted partway through. The format
and line wrapping clearly does not look correct.

I attached an image rather than pasting here since it would surely add
additional wrapping, confusing matters even more.

I guess I am wondering if anyone has seen such a thing and what might have
caused it, and obviously how to address it.

Thanks

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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC

Is that the output of ps or was it ruined between ps and the server's logs?

Josh Luthman
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Bill Arlofski <user-0b8af203a56e@xymon.invalid>wrote:

In <user-aef860a4cbec@xymon.invalid> Bill Arlofski <user-0b8af203a56e@xymon.invalid> writes:

Sounds like a bug that was fixed only last week - it's been lurking in
the 4.2.x and 4.3.x code for a very long time. I'd suggest grabbing the
current code from the Subversion repository on Sourceforge, or wait a
few days for the next beta release.


Regards,
Henrik

On 10/15/10 15:38, Josh Luthman wrote:

Hi Josh...

I am ass-u-me'ing that is the output of ps that the xymon client on the LDAP
server runs (had run) and sends to the xymon server.   If the snip was too
small to recognize where it came from, that was a snip from the the bottom
portion of a PROC report page (ie: the output of a ps command)

And where (or how) it was ruined is really my question. Seems kind of strange
to get that type of output from ps...

If I can catch it at the time the report comes in, and manually run ps on that
server, I am pretty sure the output would not me malformed like that was.

So, I am a bit concerned. Trying to keep false positives to a minimum as you
can imagine. :)


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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC

On 10/15/10 16:07, Henrik St??rner wrote:

Excellent!  Thank Henrik.    I can wait. I just wanted to report this to the
list to see if I was the only one. I probably should have checked the bugs
list at sourceforge first.   Thanks again.

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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC