<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I looked at that. Seems problematic. The command seems to be designed for checking for too many processes. No too few. My process runs as 4 processes. If I specify: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor"> ./check_procs -C myproc the output is: root:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./check_procs -C myproc 2>&1 System call sent warnings to stderr PROCS WARNING: 4 processes with command name 'myproc' I don't know how to tell is to be normal is it is running and critical if it is not. Thoughts? \\Greg Jason Martin wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20060707184618.GM3056@mal.members.linode.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:22:02PM -0400, Greg Martin wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I need to monitor a couple processes running on linux. I compiled nrpe and was looking for a script to check for the process. I can hack one together, but this seems too basic. What's the right approach? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">The nagios_plugins package comes with a check_procs plugin for that. -Jason Martin </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>