[Nagiosplug-devel] Strange Behaviour with check_procs

[Marc Powell]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:38 AM, Dennis Kuhlmeier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> maybe someone can help with this.
> Running check_procs seems to overlook two processes from the
> "condor" package on one of our machines.
> http://www.eso.org/~qc/dfos/condor.html
>
> I hope this is all info you might need

> [root at ftam plugins]# ./check_procs -c 1:1 -C condor_collector
> PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'condor_collector'
> [root at ftam plugins]# ps aux | grep condor_collector
> condor    2027  0.0  0.1   9452  3524 ?        Ss   Aug19   1:13
> condor_collector -f
> root     25907  0.0  0.0    320   124 pts/1    R+   13:31   0:00
> grep condor_collector\

While I don't have you answer, I suspect I might. check_procs is  
likely using a different ps command and those process names don't show  
in that output. Try the following and examine the output.

check_procs -c 1:1 -C condor_collector -v -v -v

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Marc