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

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 10:46 +1100, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
>
> There is no trailing space in the process args, so ps must be adding it.
> Perhaps this is to de-fang any backslashes, precisely to avoid what seems to
> be happening with the xymon client.
>
> So perhaps "escaping" a "\<sp>" sequence at the end of a line would fix this.
> Something like:
>
> ps -Aww f -
> o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time:12,pmem,rsz:10,vsz:10,cmd | sed
> 's/\\  *$/\\./'
>
Yes, this seems to work fine. Thanks for that.


John.

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