On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:22:52PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote:
Is there any reason NOT to use '/usr/ucb/ps auxwww' in place of the ps that hobbit-sunos.sh is using?...in other words, will it break anything if I use it (yes, I know I need to run it as root to get everything)? I prefer the output of what Henrik provides but the solaris ps is braindead (truncates at 80 characters).
Yeah, but all of our systems are SPARC...which does...even with Solaris 10. Question stands...is there a reason not to? (other than upgrading, will it affect any of hobbit's builtin functionality?)
If you look at the hobbitclient-sunos.sh script that runs on the clients, you'll see that it currently runs ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
If you can come up with a /usr/ucb/ps command that provides the same information - hopefully using almost the same column headers - then I have no problem in switching.
Right now, Hobbit only looks at the command line from the "ps" listing, but I do have a plan to make it track the memory- and cpu-utilisation of processes; and for that Hobbit must be able to identify the corresponding columns in the "ps" output. But that's in the future.
Regards, Henrik