Hi guys. OK, enough asking a million questions (thank you all!), now it's time for bug reporting.

Systems: Apple X-Servers. I have two. The one running OS-X 10.3 is fine. The one running OS-X Tiger 10.4 is being weird. And I figured it out.

The symptom on the newer OS is that under the "procs" column, all I see is the process header line, followed by only a small part of the first process listed- and NOTHING else. It looks like this on the web page:

PID PPID USER STARTED STAT PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSS VSZ COMMAND 1 0 root 13Jul06 S

After digging, I figured out what's happening.

OS-X 10.3: (normal)

PID PPID USER STARTED STAT PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSS VSZ COMMAND 1 0 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:00.21 -0.0 244 18072 /sbin/init 2 1 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 4:38.77 -0.0 200 18608 /sbin/mach_init 83 1 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:12.67 -0.0 200 18092 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s -m 0 89 1 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:02.68 -0.0 792 29120 kextd 91 2 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 9.0 80:57.57 -0.0 1040 31328 /usr/sbin/configd 92 2 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:00.87 -0.0 892 27888 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd 97 1 root 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 1:26.87 -0.0 212 18676 /usr/sbin/notifyd 112 1 daemon 3Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:00.17 -0.0 144 18084 portmap ..............etc

OS-X 10.4 (procs display is broken)

PID PPID USER STARTED STAT PRI %CPU TIME %MEM RSS VSZ COMMAND 1 0 root 13Jul06 S<s 32 0.0 0:17.23 -0.0 500 28348 /sbin/launchd 27 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 63 0.0 0:00.00 -0.0 168 27264 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile 31 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:06.04 -0.2 3608 30640 kextd 62 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 54:48.59 -0.1 1208 31572 hwmond 63 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:00.04 -0.0 600 27844 /usr/sbin/KernelEventAgent 64 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:51.95 -0.1 1096 28064 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchdaemon 65 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:11.21 -0.0 572 27592 /usr/sbin/netinfod -s local 66 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 63 0.0 53:42.36 -0.4 7400 47040 servermgrd -x 67 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 31 0.0 0:25.95 -0.0 512 27284 /usr/sbin/syslogd 68 1 root 13Jul06 Ss 63 0.0 0:10.54 -0.0 732 27684 watchdogtimerd ...........etc

It's the first line that's causing the hobbit procs parsing to break. Specifically, the "S<s" status. While I don't know enough OS-X tobe dangerous, I suspect it's a new type of process status under the latest Darwin. The "<" in the status is normal, and this is causing the procs parsing in hobbit to cut off everything beyond that.

1     0 root     13Jul06 S<s   32   0.0   0:17.23 -0.0    500

28348 /sbin/launchd

This of course makes any procs check useless (in my case,I was checking for simple things, like "cron", etc - and the test fails of course, since there's no such (or any other!) process listed..................

Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590