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
dave at syix.com (530) 755-1751 x101 Fax (530) 751-8871 800-988-SYIX
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:57:56AM -0700, Dave Overton wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 6.1 Release, Hobbit with the patches on the website today, and a bit frustrated. [snip] Expected string COMMAND not found in ps output header
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?
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
dave at syix.com (530) 755-1751 x101 Fax (530) 751-8871 800-988-SYIX
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 5:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] FreeBSD 6.1 and PS and COMMAND
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:57:56AM -0700, Dave Overton wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 6.1 Release, Hobbit with the patches on the website today, and a bit frustrated. [snip] Expected string COMMAND not found in ps output header
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?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
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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]
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:
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.
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
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