[Xymon] Bug? procs test going red green every hour

[John Horne]

On Thu, 2024-03-21 at 15:38 +0000, John Horne wrote:
>
> I need to do more testing, but am a little lost as to whether the bug (if it
> exists) is in the 'ps' output, the way it is recorded in the hostdata file or
> in the processing of the 'procs' test.
>
Running a test and checking the 'ps' output shows that it is okay. Using a
small script ('./aaa') and running the ps command shows:

=====
3023287 3023286 john     15:57:36 S  19  0.4     00:00:04  0.0       5136
8312  \_ -bash
3235462 3023287 john     16:14:08 S  19  0.0     00:00:00  0.0       3768
7256      \_ /bin/bash ./aaa
3235812 3235462 john     16:15:05 S  19  0.0     00:00:00  0.0       1028
3056      |   \_ sleep 3
3235463 3023287 john     16:14:08 S  19  0.0     00:00:00  0.0       1108
4016      \_ sed 1i\ ./aaa:\
3018834 3018821 john     15:38:54 S  19  0.0     00:00:00  0.0       7240
19036 sshd: john at pts/0
=====

As expected the sed command shows the script name followed by a colon and
escape characater. There is no corruption of the following line (sshd) being
appended to it.


John.

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John Horne | Senior Operations Analyst | Technology and Information Services
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