[Nagiosplug-devel] [nagios-plugins] check_procs: On solaris10 args field empty but ps -ef shows args (#1203)

[eponymous alias]

Actually, the leading wildcard will only cause a lot of wasted time backtracking after matching everything, and the trailing wildcard is a pure waste.  So smplify:

% check_procs -c 1:1 --ereg-argument-array='java.*-Dname'
PROCS OK: 1 process with regex args 'java.*-Dname' | procs=1;;1:1;0;

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On Tue, 10/15/13, eponymous alias <eponymousalias at yahoo.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] [nagios-plugins] check_procs: On solaris10 args field empty but ps -ef shows args (#1203)
 To: "nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins" <reply+i-20999501-595beefc0917cb8c6228ed68e9b872790e5fc9ca-5514713 at reply.github.com>, "Nagios Plugin Development Mailing List" <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
 Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 10:30 PM
 
 Something's amiss with your command
 line.  First of all, you can't execute that command
 without quoting the expression.  If you don't, your
 shell will interpret the "*" character, try to expand it as
 part of a glob, and you'll get nothing back.
 
 Second, the command you list here in this email doesn't
 include a couple of the "*" characters shown in the forum
 item:
 
  ./check_procs -c 1:1
 --ereg-argument-array=.*java.*-Dname.*
 
 Putting all of this together, running a small test program
 named "java" (that just sleeps forever) with the arguments
 you present:
 
 % ps -o args | fgrep java | fgrep -v fgrep
 /tmp/procs/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Dname=xyz
 -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -X
 % check_procs -c 1:1
 --ereg-argument-array='.*java.*-Dname.*'
 PROCS OK: 1 process with regex args '.*java.*-Dname.*' |
 procs=1;;1:1;0;
 
 which is to say, it works for me.
 
 I happen to be running this using the Nagios Plugins 1.5 on
 Solaris 10, for comparison.
 
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 On Mon, 10/14/13, dmikulski <notifications at github.com>
 wrote:
 
  Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] [nagios-plugins] check_procs:
 On solaris10 args field empty but ps -ef shows args (#1203)
  To: "nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins" <nagios-plugins at noreply.github.com>
  Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 11:55 PM
  
  There is probably a bug which I can't
  take a deeper debugging on because I don't have the
  knowledge how to.
  
  There is a service running on my solaris10 sparc machine
  which with 'ps -ef | grep java' shows:
  
  javauser 3775 1 0 Oct 08 ? 283:36
  /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh
 -server
  -Dname=xyz
  
  Trying:
  
  ./check_procs -c 1:1
  --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
  
  results in:
  
  PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with regex args
  '.java.-Dname.*'
  
  Debugging with:
  
  ./check_procs -c 1:1
  --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.* -vvv | grep
  java
  
  results in:
  
  S 1995 3775 1 0 0 0.3 java proc#=0 uid=1995 vsz=0 rss=0
  pid=3775 ppid=1 pcpu=0.30 stat=S etime= prog=java args=
  
  S 0 22707 18750 4292 1032 0.0 grep grep javaproc#=0 uid=0
  vsz=4292 rss=1032 pid=22707 ppid=18750 pcpu=0.00 stat=S
  etime= prog=grep args=grep java
  
  S 0 22706 18750 4440 1224 0.0 check_procs ./check_procs -c
  1:1 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
  -vvvproc#=0 uid=0 vsz=4440 rss=1224 pid=22706 ppid=18750
  pcpu=0.00 stat=S etime= prog=check_procs
 args=./check_procs
  -c 1:1 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
  -vvv
  
  Processlist comes from
  /opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/pst3
  
  Running 'pargs 3775':
  
  3775: /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh
  -server -Dname=xyz
  
  argv[0]: /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java
  
  argv[1]: -Dprogram.name=run.sh
  
  argv[2]: -server
  
  argv[3]: -Dname=xyz
  
  argv[4]: -Xms4096m
  
  argv[5]: -Xmx4096m
  
  argv[6]: -Xmn512m
  
  argv[7]: -Dorg.apache.lucene.maxClauseCount=4096
  
  argv[8]: -Xloggc:/home/xyz/log/GC.log
  
  argv[9]: -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
  
  argv[10]: -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=60000
  
  argv[11]: -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000
  
  argv[12]: -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
  
  argv[13]: -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
  
  argv[14]: -XX:+PrintGCDetails
  
  argv[15]: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000
  
  argv[16]: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000
  
  argv[17]: -XX:+UseParNewGC
  
  argv[18]: -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=10
  
  argv[19]: -DMaSystem.simple=true
  
  argv[20]:
  -Dproperties.decorator.class=com.materna.buc.macs.basics.properties.MacsPropertiesWrapper
  
  argv[21]: -Dmacs.home=/home/xyz
  
  argv[22]: -Djava.awt.headless=true
  
  argv[23]:
 -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/home/xyz/jboss/lib/endorsed
  
  argv[24]: -classpath
  
  argv[25]:
  /home/xyz/jboss/bin/run.jar:/usr/jdk/latest/lib/tools.jar
  
  argv[26]: org.jboss.Main
  
  argv[27]: -c
  
  argv[28]: all
  
  argv[29]: --partition=xyzPartition
  
  argv[30]: --udp=215.116.3.6
  
  argv[31]: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
  
  argv[32]: -b
  
  argv[33]: 192.168.234.212
  
  uname -a
  
  SunOS host1 5.10 Generic_118855-36 i86pc i386 i86pc
  
  Everything was run as root user!
  
  The forum thread below:
  http://www.monitoring-portal.org/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=29552
  
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