topic Re: Process Header in Operating System - HP-UX

Process Header

Jeff Machols — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:26:43 GMT

Anyone know how to change or control the processes header that gets display on the ps command.

So when run /usr/local/bin/myscript

instead of the output of ps being

jeff 2939 9393 X X X /usr/local/bin/myscript

I want
jeff 2939 9393 X X X customized_description

Any ideas?

Re: Process Header

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:32:39 GMT

Hi Jeff:

This sort of thing is usually used by those who want to hide their tracks; I think I'll keep those ideas to myself.

Re: Process Header

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:34:11 GMT

You can set the process title using C. I'm not aware of a mechanism to set the process title using shell commands. If you're interested in the C program, let me know and I'll post an example.

Re: Process Header

Craig Rants — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:36:13 GMT

OOOOh, directly out of Unix Hackers 101.

Re: Process Header

Jeff Machols — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:38:17 GMT

Thats what I thought Clay, but it's my boss that wants it. What does that mean!?!?! Let me rephrase, is there a straight forward, legimitiment, non-hack way to do this?

Re: Process Header

Jeff Machols — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:39:41 GMT

Actually what we want is a way to see whats at the end. The beginning of the command is just the path, we want to be able to do a ps and see the end of entire command

Re: Process Header

Jeff Machols — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:43:05 GMT

Chris,

I wouldn't mind looking at the C example. Thanks

Re: Process Header

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:43:11 GMT

You'll have to wrap the command in a c program. Man pstat for more info, there are several freely available examples on the web.

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mark

Re: Process Header

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:45:32 GMT

Re: Process Header

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:46:03 GMT

if all you are looking for is the full command-line, try this:

#!/bin/ksh
stty columms 132
ps -ef |fold

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mark

Re: Process Header

Christopher Caldwell — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:58:05 GMT

Re: Process Header

Mark Greene_1 — Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:08:21 GMT

well, if we are posting code on this, try these code snippets out:

main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
strcpy(argv[0], "ls"); /* pretend we are 'ls' instead */
if (argc>1)
for (i=1; i strcpy(argv[i],"");
dosomething();
exit(x);
}

/* this program shows its progress, using argv[1]
*/
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
while ((current_filename = getfilename()) != NULL)
{
strcpy(argv[1], current_filename);
process_file(current_filename);
} exit(x);
}