[Nagiosplug-checkins] Assistance needed with check_procs running on AIX

[Ludse.Verhoeven at VOPAK.COM]

Hello,

Joined this mailing-list just the other day, mainly because I have a 
problem with the check_procs-plugin. On Linux the plugin works just fine, 
but I've also compiled the plugin for use on several AIX 4.3.3-servers (I 
know, it's almost outdated ;-) and there it exits with an "segmentation 
fault" or an "illegal instruction"-error. Looked on the nagios-plugin-site 
for newer releases (we're running v1.3.0 still) and found the 
v1.3.1-release. But, after compilation of these sources the same problem 
exists.

A bit more in-depth:
For the 1.3.0-sources to work I already had to modify the 
configure.in-file to provide a ps-command with the correct parameters and 
to interpret these parameters in the (I thought) correct way. After 
compilation and testing the check_procs-command seemed to work just fine 
and the plugin was implemented in our checking-procedures via Nagios. 
However, after a number of days that AIX-system suddenly gave an 
"segmentation failure" (rc=139) when running the check. The check-results 
however were correct. Not sure what exactly changed on that system, but 2 
other more-or-less identical AIX-servers don't have that problem. 
Furthermore, another system, which runs an AIX-4.3.3-version, but on a 
Bull-platform, also suddenly came up with errors regarding this check. In 
this case the errormessage was "illegal instruction" (rc=132), but with 
the same type of problems just stated.

I imagine that these errors may be a result of the changed 
configure.in-parms I've mentioned earlier, but I'm very curious why this 
didn't occur in the first place and secondly, what to do about it...... I 
know almost for sure that the problem will disappear when I reboot the 
system, but that's not an option (at least not for this minor glitch).

Can anyone help me with this? I can provide details on the changed 
configure.in-parms (or any other topic) if necessary.

With kind regards,
       L. Verhoeven
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