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 <h1>uname -a</h1> SunOS host1 5.10 Generic_118855-36 i86pc i386 i86pc Everything was run as root user! The forum thread below: <a href="http://www.monitoring-portal.org/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=29552">http://www.monitoring-portal.org/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=29552</a> — Reply to this email directly or <a href='https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins/issues/1203'>view it on GitHub</a>.<img src='https://github.com/notifications/beacon/_EHT0K2RMtzboqJPrl-P-LBXEQsSjxupqsv3OGGwlNW5YBb1p6_6OA7ztnOjvQ5B.gif' height='1' width='1'>