[Nagiosplug-devel] Solaris problems

[Ton Voon]

On 7 Dec 2006, at 21:31, bobi at netshel.net wrote:

> Hi Ton,
>
> I'm the trouble-maker who wrote the pst3 program for Solaris.

:)

>
> The intent was to get around the 80 character limit on ps output  
> imposed
> by the built-in ps program and the Solaris library.  We have Java
> processes that we have to monitor that are not differentiable  
> within the
> first 80 bytes of the command-line displayed by the stock Solaris ps
> program.

No problem. I understand the reasons why we have pst3. I think we  
just need to polish pst3 so it works off a configure on all Solaris  
systems.


> As for problem #2.  Ouch.  I have have Solaris 8 and 9 running in our
> organization, I guess I really should revisit pst3.c and make sure  
> it runs
> under both 32-bit and 64-bit mode under Solaris 9.  I wrote it when we
> only had access to Solaris 8 but I did test it under both 32 and 64  
> bit
> builds (or so I thought.)
>
> Would you like me to try testing it against Solaris 9?  (That's the  
> latest
> we are running.)

 From the conversation with Sean, I think the ideal is that pst3  
works when compiled in 32bit or 64bit mode and whether the kernel is  
32bit or 64bit. My main problem at the moment is that on a Sol9  
server in 64bit mode, the distribution compiles pst3 as 32bit, but  
the kernel is 64bit, so we get a "/dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel  
namelist" error. It would be great if you could provide a patch for  
this (I'm way outside my depth!).

Ton

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