[hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Try ps -waxxxx (with the number of X's dependent on how much output you
want). This is the same for the "ps" on Solaris that is in /usr/ucb.

=R

Cayo de Moraes wrote:
> thanks for this solution guys... now i have to fight a litle bit with
> the syntax under Unix AIX 5.3... its unfortunately not the same as in Linux
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/11/23 Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com
> <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>>
> 
>     no, your ps statement was REALLY tiny in the email I responded to.
>      In plain text, it looks normal.
> 
>     =G=
> 
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Sheets, Jerald [Jerald.Sheets at turner.com
>     <mailto:Jerald.Sheets at turner.com>]
>     Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:59 PM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
>     too long
> 
>     Well, I would've figured that if it was wrapping, it would actually
>     be easier to find the string he's looking for at the end of the Java
>     line.  If it was truncating, he wasn't getting it at all.
> 
>     Did I err in that assumption somewhere?
> 
>     --j
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com
>     <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>]
>     Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:19 PM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
>     too long
> 
>     When they said too long, I didn't think they meant a smaller font
>     (those of you who received the previous email in html know what I'm
>     talking about. ;-)
> 
>     =G=
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Sheets, Jerald [Jerald.Sheets at turner.com
>     <mailto:Jerald.Sheets at turner.com>]
>     Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:32 PM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
>     too long
> 
>     Interesting.
> 
>     I was just checking out the output in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beeta2, and the
>     process listing under "procs" is not truncated at all for me.
> 
>     I was about to setup a new check, and see what I could come up with,
>     and I happened to catch the Xymon command that was run in that
>     process listing, and it was:
> 
> 
>     ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd
> 
> 
>     Good catch!
> 
>     Jerald Sheets
>     Sr. Systems Engineer
>     CNN News Systems
>     ? Jerald.Sheets at turner.com <mailto:Jerald.Sheets at turner.com>
>     * 404.878.0566  È404.293.8762
> 
>     ________________________________
>     From: Brand, Thomas R. [mailto:TRBrand at cvs.com <mailto:TRBrand at cvs.com>]
>     Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:27 PM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is
>     too long
> 
>     From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:camorae at googlemail.com>]
>     Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:12 PM
>     To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     Subject: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long
> 
>     Hello guys,
> 
>     im having some problems to monitor processes with a long output
>     (most of them are java processes). Hobbit seems to cut the output at
>     certain size and i have to look for a string which appears at the
>     end of the output.
> 
>     where can i change this length limit?
> 
> 
>     I had the same problem, also with java processes.
> 
>     Assuming you are using Linux, look in the
>     ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh, look for the line echo "[ps]"
> 
>     Change the 'ps ' command which follows according to your systems
>     requirements.
>     For example, under SLES, I had to add 'ww' and changee it to:
>     ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd
> 
> 
> 
>     Tom Brand
>     Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely
>     wrong, 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying
>     for it, or your money cheerfully refunded.
> 
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