[hobbit] Solaris ps

[Galen Johnson]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 06:22:52PM -0500, Galen Johnson wrote:
>   
>>>> Is there any reason NOT to use '/usr/ucb/ps auxwww' in place of the 
>>>> ps that hobbit-sunos.sh is using?...in other words, will it break 
>>>> anything if I use it (yes, I know I need to run it as root to get 
>>>> everything)?   I prefer the output of what Henrik provides but the 
>>>> solaris ps is braindead (truncates at 80 characters).
>>>>         
>> Yeah, but all of our systems are SPARC...which does...even with Solaris 
>> 10.   Question stands...is there a reason not to? (other than upgrading, 
>> will it affect any of hobbit's builtin functionality?)
>>     
>
> If you look at the hobbitclient-sunos.sh script that runs on the
> clients, you'll see that it currently runs
>   ps -A -o pid,ppid,user,stime,s,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rss,vsz,args
>
> If you can come up with a /usr/ucb/ps command that provides the same 
> information - hopefully using almost the same column headers - then
> I have no problem in switching.
>
> Right now, Hobbit only looks at the command line from the "ps" listing,
> but I do have a plan to make it track the memory- and cpu-utilisation of
> processes; and for that Hobbit must be able to identify the
> corresponding columns in the "ps" output. But that's in the future.
>   
Thanks...I looked into trying just that.  I can get using options 
'auxwww' gets me a lot of the fields and I can get others with 
'alxwww'...unfortunately, the 'l' and 'u' options appear to be mutually 
exclusive...which is annoying.  'auxwww' does give you some memory and 
cpu info (I _think_ it's the same as the pcpu and pmem).  I wouldn't 
necessarily suggest this as a permanent change but I need it to get more 
information from the command line.

I can work up the changes to provide both as an option (it does require 
that the -o args be rearranged since the output of /usr/ucb/ps isn't 
configurable).

=G=