[Nagiosplug-help] Re: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem

[Shawn McCool]

checking for ps... (cached) /bin/ps
I'm running Suse 7.0
I'm using Nagios-Plugins 1.3.0

Can I modify my config script to make it say /bin/ps -ax  ?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Voon, Ton" <Ton.Voon at egg.com>
To: "'Shawn McCool'" <smccool at ascendantmedia.com>;
<nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:48 AM
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem


> Copying to nagiosplug-help list. Can future replies remove the
nagios-users
> list
>
> Which version of check_nagios? Which OS? What does configure say your ps
> command is?
>
> There have been some changes to check_nagios so that it uses the same ps
> command as check_procs. Can you try with the latest CVS version - use the
> snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot. Use the -v flag to see what
> is being seen.
>
> Ton
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn McCool [SMTP:smccool at ascendantmedia.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 6:53 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem
> >
> > check_nagios gets a ps list and searches for the final arguement in the
> > check_nagios command line
> >
> > nagios_check_command=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log 5 '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios'
> >
> > In this case it checks for /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> >
> >
> >
> > The Documentation:
> >
> > # Note: If you are using the check_nagios plugin here, the first
> > # argument should be the physical path to the status log, the
> > # second argument is the number of minutes that the status log
> > # contents should be "fresher" than, and the third argument is the
> > # string that should be matched from the output of the 'ps'
> > # command in order to locate the running Nagios process.  That
> > # process string is going to vary depending on how you start
> > # Nagios.  Run the 'ps' command manually to see what the command
> > # line entry for the Nagios process looks like.
> >
> > Suggest that i should run 'ps' to see what it returns.
> >
> > Wether I am the Nagios user or root ps has inappropriate return values
for
> > this check command.
> >
> > # ps
> >   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> >   534 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
> >   535 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
> >   536 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
> >   537 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
> >   538 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
> >   539 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
> >  1860 pts/8    00:00:00 bash
> > 14765 pts/3    00:00:00 bash
> > 11225 pts/6    00:00:00 bash
> > 12483 pts/9    00:00:00 bash
> > 12490 pts/9    00:00:01 ssh
> > 12509 pts/10   00:00:00 bash
> > 12540 pts/10   00:00:00 ssh
> > 12774 pts/11   00:00:00 bash
> > 12805 pts/11   00:00:00 ssh
> > 19339 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
> > 22771 pts/5    00:00:00 shell
> > 22772 pts/5    00:00:00 ssh
> > 24309 pts/12   00:00:00 bash
> > 28146 pts/6    00:00:01 ssh
> > 28993 pts/13   00:00:00 bash
> > 29269 pts/12   00:00:00 ssh
> > 29309 pts/14   00:00:00 bash
> > 29316 pts/14   00:00:00 ssh
> >  8053 pts/15   00:00:00 bash
> > 11875 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
> > 14706 pts/2    00:00:00 ps
> >
> > Although I assure you nagios IS running
> >
> > # ps waux | grep nagios
> > nagios   12253  0.0  0.0  1560  880 ?        S    12:32   0:00
./nagios -d
> > ../etc/nagios.cfg
> >
> > Is there a way to change the command line for ps so that I can have it
> > return the appropriate information?
>
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