[hobbit] FreeBSD 6.1 and PS and COMMAND

[Dave Overton]

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
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> -----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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