[hobbit] BB vs Hobbit: How to get rid of displaying the ps output?

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Jan 23 23:47:02 CET 2008


On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:12:00PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Is there a possibility to _not_ show the whole ps output in the procs
> details CGI? BB only showed the monitored processes. With hobbit this
> page shows the whole ps output. 

It can be done for all servers, by adding the "--no-ps-listing" option 
to the hobbitd_client command in hobbitlaunch.cfg . That should do it
for data from Hobbit clients.

> IMHO this is a privacy issue -- even
> with a passowrd protection for the CGI scripts -- since the output may
> get saved permanently in the history.

That's interesting, I hadn't thought about that.

If your client reports data from the "top" utility, then a partial
ps-listing also appears in the "cpu" status column. This cannot be
turned off, currently. It sounds as if it might be a good idea to let
the --no-ps-listing option block this ps listing as well, although the
"top" display (at least on Linux - not sure about other platforms) only
shows the basic command, not commandline options.


Regards,
Henrik




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