Here is a sample ps output:
ps -Al -o pid,ppid,user,stime,state,pri,pcpu,time,vsz,args|grep tl1_am
It may not be clear here with outlook formatting the text but it would
appear that the ps output gets shifted towards the right to accommodate
a bigger time column which leads to a parsing bug.
My PROCS statement looks for this:
PROC %^vt_tl1_am$ 1 TEXT=vt_tl1_am
This will fail to find the process below if the time field goes over its
allocated column space. I am assuming because it determines the ps
fields based on column boundaries?
2316 1421 dwgore 02:28:43 S 154 0.00 00:00 128 grep tl1_am
10480 1 temip Apr 20 R 152 35.78 1-00:27:52 1296976 vt_tl1_am
If I remove the time entry from the ps list of parameters from
hobbitclient-hp-ux.sh then the ps will look like this:
dwgore at ndctfb8:/var/opt/vzb/nmsbb/client/bin> ps -Ax -o
pid,ppid,user,stime,state,pri,pcpu,vsz,args|grep vt_tl1_am
8098 7808 dwgore 02:42:52 R 154 0.00 128 grep vt_tl1_am
10480 1 temip Apr 20 R 152 26.82 1296976 vt_tl1_am
And parsing will succeed. Should I go ahead and remove the time column
from all my hosts to work around this bug since I am not sure it is used
anyway?
~David