<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6617.47"> <TITLE>check_procs v 1.46 BASENAME and ignore self</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  I've previously succesfully used v1.43 but now I seem to be facing major problems with 1.46. I'm on Solaris 10 and these are my findings: Issue #1 The HAVE_BASENAME change is not good for me because this piece of code is not compiled since HAVE_BASENAME is undefined. Where is it supposed to come from ? (Solaris does indeed have a basename() function and it will work as expected) The result of this is that -C filter does not work as expected. Issue #2 The code changes made in order to ignore self does not seem to work. I can see this by running in verbose mode (-vvv) and checking when the procs counter is increased. To me the problem seems to be that there are actually two proceses that you would want to ignore. 1. the check_procs process 2. the ps process (which will be a child of the one above) Not really knowing the code I think that you will have to check on both the actual PID and as well as the PPID, i.e. if (mypid == procpid || mypid == procppid) continue; The result of this issue is that check_procs will report one more process than what actually exist. Issue #3 There is something strange - unless it is intentional - with my PS_VARLIST. I note that variable procpid is repeated. Is this really intentional? This is how it looks in config.h: /* Variable list for sscanf of 'ps' output */ #define PS_VARLIST procstat,&procuid,&procpid,&procpid,&procvsz,&procrss,&procpcpu,procprog,&pos I would have thought that it should have been: #define PS_VARLIST procstat,&procuid,&procpid,&procppid,&procvsz,&procrss,&procpcpu,procprog,&pos rgds, Lars </BODY> </HTML>