topic Re: process table scanning in Operating System - Linux

process table scanning

jerry1 — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:46:56 GMT

Would anyone out there happen to have a
script or would know how to capture particular
account processes and log them.

ps -ef gives you the current snapshot of what
is running but how would you capture particular
process in real time to a log file without
have dups entires.

Doing a:

ps -ef|grep -v |grep -i >>pslog

doesn't give you realtime data.

acctcom does not have the info needed either.

Re: process table scanning

Mark Travis — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:04:21 GMT

The /proc filesystem is fun.

That's a realtime peek into kernel process tables disguised as a filesystem.

"man proc" ought to give more information.

so

find /proc/[0-9]* -name cmdline -exec cat {} \;

gives you the name of all running processes as they were launched from the command line.

Re: process table scanning

jerry1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:00:16 GMT

This is strange. Somehow I ended up with
two exact postings of this message with
two different people responding to either
one or the other. ???

Can a moderator out there combine the replies
to one or the other posts?

Thanks Mark, I'll check it out.

Re: process table scanning

jerry1 — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:58:59 GMT

This is the wrong forum. I will re-post this
message to the HP forum.