My guess is "yes". You can see the way ps was originally called specifies the output columns. These are specific columns in a specific order, and I'm sure the parser on the server side is depending on that. "ps -eaf" does not spit out the same columns in the same order ... so I think you're walking on pretty thin ice.

-----Original Message----- From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:19 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] bug report: hobbit client for solaris can't report zombie process

The existing ps command in hobbit-client-sunos.sh won't report zombie processes. I changed the long ps -A command to just "ps -eaf" and it can report the zombie now.

Question is will "ps -eaf" break anything on hobbit server side ?

root at login3> diff hobbitclient-sunos.sh hobbitclient-sunos.orig 55,56c55,56 < #ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args < ps -eaf

ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args

root at login3>

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