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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">we discovered a bug with check_procs & I've downloaded the source code. How do I know</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If I have the correct version of the source based on our binary that we are running. When I run check_procs --help</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">the top line says<B> check_procs v1758 (nagios-plugins 1.4.11)</B>. I can't find these values in the source code.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> print_revision (progname, NP_VERSION)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Bug Details</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">When executing the check_procs on HPUX or AIX the plug-in executes "ps -el" not "ps -ef". This means that the pattern is not matched and the plugin thinks the process is not running when it is.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">./check_procs -w1 -c1 -C gcp_get_mistral_results.pl -vvv</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><debug></FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">CMD: /usr/bin/ps -el (AIX 4.1 and HP-UX)</FONT></B></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><B><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><debug></FONT></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Shows that for HPUX & AIX check_procs runs "ps -el"</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">And if I do ps -el on the command line - </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bigbro@lntrs184# ps -el | grep mistral_recv.pl</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">But the process is running.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">bigbro@lntrs184# ps -ef | grep mistral_recv.pl</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> rbc 23426 1 0 Sep 9 ? 15:10 /usr/bin/perl -w ./mistral_recv.pl</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Paul Graziano</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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