[Nagiosplug-help] check_procs version 1.3.0-beta2

[Voon, Ton]

Matthias,

Firstly, can you try the latest tarball at
http://www.debisschop.net/src/nagios/ because there have been quite a few
changes to check_procs.

Secondly, if you run check_procs with -v it will show you the ps command
used to list all processes. I assume your example output below is using this
ps command. If so, then the -C flag does an exact comparison (no wildcards
yet, but will be in a later version) with the 4th column. So you would need
to run:

check_procs -C restartvideo

to find the restartvideo process. If you want to search based on the 5th
column, you need to run:

check_procs -a "/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/restartvideo"

Again, be aware that it must be an exact match.

Ton

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthias Fechner [SMTP:idefix at fechner.net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:33 PM
> To:	Nagios Mailinglist
> Subject:	Re: [Nagiosplug-help] check_procs version 1.3.0-beta2
> 
> Hallo Subhendu,
> 
> * Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> [17-02-03 14:15]:
> > -C "/usr/bin/perl" -a "/usr/local/bin/startvideo"
> 
> I have tried now several combinations, but noone will work.
> I tried it very easy to test if check_procs is running fine, but:
> check_procs -C perl will return:
> OK - 0 processes running with command name perl
> 
> It seems, the checkprocs will not find any perlprocess.
> 
> I tried:
> ./check_procs -C "/usr/bin/perl"
> 
> It returns:
> OK - 0 processes running with command name /usr/bin/perl
> 
> But on this system(Debian unstable) are running several perlprocesses:
> S        0     1 restartvideo     /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/local/bin/restartvideo
> S        0   328 startvideo       /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/startvideo
> S        0     1 vdradmind.pl     /usr/bin/perl
> /usr/local/video/vdradmin/vdradmind.pl
> 
> But it seems, that check_procs will not find any of them.
> 
> Now i tried it on a FreeBSD-System.
> I want to track the following programm.
> Ss       0     1 ppp              ppp
> 
> But this programm is started with several arguments:
>  /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat default
>  
> It seems, that i have really strange problems with check_procs.
> 
> Can anyone give me tips to solve these problems, please?
> 
> -- 
> Bye
> Matthias
> 
> 
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