[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1291126 ] Alternate ps for Solaris

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Bugs item #1291126, was opened at 2005-09-14 10:04
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Category: General plugin execution
Group: CVS
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bob Ingraham (rwingraham)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Alternate ps for Solaris

Initial Comment:
Per Sean, I am uploading the source for an alternate ps 
utility for Solaris that will work with the existing 
check_procs plugin.

This alternate ps gets around the 80-character limitation 
inherent in the native ps for Solaris.

It has been extensively testing on our corporate Solaris 
farm.

Notes:

1. I've installed this alternate ps (called pst3) in the 
libexec directory, along with the other plugins.

2. It needs setuid-root permissions to run, but accepts 
no arguments and reads no input streams and therefore 
isn't subject to exploitations such as buffer overflow and 
the like.  The only reason is needs the setuid-root 
permission is so that it can open the running kernel 
image, in READ-ONLY mode, in order to access the 
process argument vectors.

3. It requires a patch to the configuration file which 
substitutes this alternate utility instead of ps for Soalris 
systems.

Bob


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