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by jwinkle
Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:32 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_procs on Solaris fails sometimes
Replies: 3
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Re: check_procs on Solaris fails sometimes

I posted on github at https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagio ... /issues/64

pst3.c is code included with plugins:
-rw-r--r-- 1 jwinkle jwinkle 7099 Mar 4 2014 nagios-plugins-2.0.3/plugins-root/pst3.c
by jwinkle
Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:13 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: check_procs on Solaris fails sometimes
Replies: 3
Views: 2419

check_procs on Solaris fails sometimes

On Solaris, check_procs uses pst3 instead of /bin/ps (see http://nagios-plugins.org/doc/faq/ps-on-solaris.html for background). There's a small bug in pst3 which causes it to NOT report some processes that are at the end of the process table, at least on very busy systems (we noticed this on a CoolT...