check_procs not detecting process

[Vincent Aniello]

On Redhat Enterprise 2.1 the command:
 
/bin/ps -weo 'stat uid ppid comm args'
 
is being used.
 
STAT   UID  PPID COMMAND          COMMAND
S      500  1    perl             blkstd

The command is actually 'perl' with the arguments being the process name
I am looking for, blkstd.

When I look for the process with the command 'ps -ef' is appears
correctly.

[exa at rtblks01 bin]$  ps -ef|grep blkstd
exa       5082     1  0 Aug25 ?        00:01:37 blkstd

Any idea how I can fix this?  

V/


________________________________

From: Phil Costelloe [mailto:philc at foundation-it.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:34 AM
To: Vincent Aniello
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_procs not detecting process


On my Mandrake 9 box, the command Nagios uses is something like
 
    ps -weo 'stat uid ppid comm args'
 
which does have a habit of truncating the args output (i.e. the command
itself). You can probably figure out what's being used on your system by
having a look at config.status in your plugins build directory (if you
built from source). Run that command and see if what you're grepping for
is in the output.
 
Phil
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Vincent Aniello
[mailto:Vincent.Aniello at PipelineTrading.com] 
	Sent: 27 August 2004 14:15
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] check_procs not detecting process
	
	
	I am having a problem with check_procs not detecting a process
that is running.  When I run check_procs it detects '0' processes
running, but when I perform a ps for the process I see it running.  See
below for the output from the commands.
	
	[root at rtblks01 etc]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -C
blkstd
	OK - 0 processes running with command name blkstd
		
	[root at rtblks01 etc]# ps -ef|grep blkstd
	exa       5082     1  0 Aug25 ?        00:00:18 blkstd
	
	The check_procs version is:
	check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9.2.1
	
	I am running Redhat Enterprise 2.1.
	 
	Has any one seen this before?  Any help would be appreciated.
	 
	Thanks.
	 
	V/




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