Henrik Stoerner wrote:
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
- 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.
Thanks...I looked into trying just that. I can get using options 'auxwww' gets me a lot of the fields and I can get others with 'alxwww'...unfortunately, the 'l' and 'u' options appear to be mutually exclusive...which is annoying. 'auxwww' does give you some memory and cpu info (I _think_ it's the same as the pcpu and pmem). I wouldn't necessarily suggest this as a permanent change but I need it to get more information from the command line.
I can work up the changes to provide both as an option (it does require that the -o args be rearranged since the output of /usr/ucb/ps isn't configurable).
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