[Nagiosplug-devel] oddity about check_procs plugin and solaris

[Philip Brown]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Why is chgeck_procs truncating the prog path like that, when the raw PS 
>> command is clearly NOT truncating?!
>>
> 
> Again, it may not. Copy-paste the code snippets where it truncates the
> variables and then again where it actually uses the truncated variable.

it "may not"??

i finally looked at the code. It truncates. and its even commented that it 
truncates.


"check_procs.c" line 196

       /* Some ps return full pathname for command. This removes path */
       strcpy(procprog, base_name(procprog));

Older versions (1.3.1 specifically ) do not do this truncating.

It is sensible behaviour to check for the full path of an executable.
Particularly for security reasons, since args can be falsified I believe(?), 
the one and only way to check for full path of an executable, is in that field.
The field that currently has the information thrown away.