check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9.2.1

[Sandor W. Sklar]

Ah, yes, I think is exactly the problem:  a bug in the check_procs  
command.  I just wasn't sure if this was "known" bug being worked on,  
or if I was the only one to encounter this problem.

Thanks,
	-s-

On May 22, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Christian Nilsson - op5 wrote:

> I think this is a bug in check_proc. At least I never got it to  
> work on Solaris 8 and 9. If i remember it correctly it had  
> something to do with the ps command... with the -C flag nothing  
> matches but i got it to work with -a but in this case you also get  
> a result matching "grep procname". Maybe something you can live  
> with until it's fixed?
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
> Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>> thanks for the tip, but I tried as both root and an unprivilaged   
>> user, with the same result.  On Solaris, it can't match against a   
>> process name, but it works fine on AIX 5.2 and RHEL4.
>>
>> 	-s-
>>
>> On May 22, 2007, at 2:07 AM, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm not sure about your cases but when running check_procs on   
>>> hardened gentoo servers, their hardened kernels stop user  
>>> accounts  from seeing all other users processes. The only user  
>>> who can see  other user's processes is the root user.
>>>
>>> Therefore I run my proc checks with sudo and then it works.
>>>
>>> Are you running check_procs as the nagios user? Have you tried   
>>> running it as root?
>>>
>>> -h
>>>
>>> Hari Sekhon
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is not useful, but I reported an identical problem on  
>>>> Solaris  8,  and got no replies.
>>>>
>>>> 	-s-
>>>>
>>>> On May 21, 2007, at 12:12 PM, abid dar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> That didn't work either.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>>> From: "Mies, Christian" <c.mies at itnovum.de>
>>>>> To: abid dar <snyper9311 at yahoo.com>; Nagios-   
>>>>> users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:50:52 PM
>>>>> Subject: AW: [Nagios-users] check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.3.1)   
>>>>> 1.9.2.1
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> try it with the '-a' Parameter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>>> Von: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>>> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag
>>>>>> von abid dar
>>>>>> Gesendet: Montag, 21. Mai 2007 20:04
>>>>>> An: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>>> Betreff: [Nagios-users] check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.3.1)  
>>>>>> 1.9.2.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I run check_procs I get:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../libexec/check_procs
>>>>>> OK - 4 processes running
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../libexec/check_procs -C nrpe
>>>>>> OK - 0 processes running with command name nrpe
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ../libexec/check_procs -C "/usr/local/nagios/nrpe -c
>>>>>> /usr/local/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d"
>>>>>> OK - 0 processes running with command name
>>>>>> /usr/local/nagios/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is on a Tru64 (alpha) box.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why doesnt is show the process that I specify (no matter how I
>>>>>> call it) is running?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> suggestions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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