FreeBSD 6.1 and PS and COMMAND 🔗 link

I am running FreeBSD 6.1 Release, Hobbit with the patches on the website
today, and a bit frustrated.
 
In hobbit-clients.cfg I have added the following lines:
 
HOST=mail02.syix.com
        PROC cron 1 -1 yellow
        PROC httpd 2 -1 red
        PROC radiusd 1 -1 red
        PROC named 1 -1 red
 
In the Hobbit Display, and in my pages on my phone, I get for that server:
 
Expected string COMMAND not found in ps output header
 
and on the display, the "COMMAND" column is not there...
 
It looks like this:
 

Wed Jun 21 11:51:47 PDT 2006 - Processes NOT ok

 yellow <http://puma.syix.com/hobbit/gifs/yellow.gif>;  Expected string
COMMAND not found in ps output header


  PID  PPID USER    STARTED STAT PRI %CPU      TIME %MEM  RSS   VSZ

    0     0 root    31Aug05 DLs  -18  0.0   0:04.46  0.0    0     0

    1     0 root    31Aug05 SLs   10  0.0   0:01.30  0.1   72   544

    2     0 root    31Aug05 DL    10  0.0   0:00.00  0.0    0     0

    3     0 root    31Aug05 DL    10  0.0   0:04.90  0.0    0     0

    4     0 root    31Aug05 DL    10  0.0   0:00.00  0.0    0     0
(which is probably broken on your screen, but there is no "COMMAND" column)
 
So, I go looking...  Can't find where PS is told to do this!!!  Argh.  A bit
of guidance, like what file tells PS to read those columns?  and why does it
hate the COMMAND column?
 
Help?


Dave Overton, Owner
SYIX.COM

user-4179705f9dca@xymon.invalid
(XXX) XXX-XXXX x101
Fax (XXX) XXX-XXXX
800-988-SYIX

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:57:56AM -0700, Dave Overton wrote:

[snip]

The "ps" command that the Hobbit client runs is in the
~hobbit/client/hobbitclient-freebssd.sh script. It was recently changed
to provide a specific set of columns and therefore now is

ps -ax -ww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,cputime,pmem,rss,vsz,args

Last I tested this, it did provide the "COMMAND" column. Maybe this has
changed in 6.1 ?


Regards,
Henrik

There is the problem, and my information was incorrect.

Freebsd 4.11 returns this with the command string:
ps -ax -ww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,cputime,pmem,rss,vsz,args
ps: args: keyword not found
  PID  PPID USER    STARTED STAT PRI %CPU      TIME %MEM  RSS   VSZ
    0     0 root    31Aug05 DLs  -18  0.0   0:04.53  0.0    0     0

Freebsd 6.1 returns: (as expected)
ps -ax -ww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,cputime,pmem,rss,vsz,args
  PID  PPID USER   STARTED STAT PRI %CPU      TIME %MEM   RSS   VSZ COMMAND
    0     0 root   17Jun06 WLs   98  0.0   0:00.00  0.0     0     0
[swapper]

So, my subject line was wrong, the PS line works fine in v6.1, its v4.11 it
breaks in.

Excerpt from #man ps:

KEYWORDS
     The following is a complete list of the available keywords and their
     meanings.  Several of them have aliases (keywords which are synonyms).

     %cpu       percentage cpu usage (alias pcpu)
     %mem       percentage memory usage (alias pmem)
     acflag     accounting flag (alias acflg)
     command    command and arguments
     cpu        short-term cpu usage factor (for scheduling)
     flags      the process flags, in hexadecimal (alias f)

Dave Overton, Owner
SYIX.COM

user-4179705f9dca@xymon.invalid
(XXX) XXX-XXXX x101
Fax (XXX) XXX-XXXX
800-988-SYIX 

Answering myself.  Changing the string in the "hobbitclient-freebsd.sh" file
to the same one found in the  "hobbitclient-darwin.sh" fixed it to work on
both systems.

Thanks for heading me in the right direction.

Dave

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:01:52AM -0700, Dave Overton wrote:

Looking at the FreeBSD man-pages, it seems that "-o command" should work
on all FreeBSD versions. So I've changed the client script to use this.


Regards,
Henrik Størner