On 19-11-10 11:56, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Parent process selection > Author: Seva Gluschenko > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19311,19328#msg-19328 > > Correct me if I wrong, but ps output on different Unix systems cannot be > exactly identical anyway, the further parsing is applied. Why not just use > different process table access code instead? > > Moreover, security concerns tell us not to trust any external utilities, > since rootkits typically hijack ps, ls and other system utilities to hide > their presence. >
That is true. But what does cfengine3 now uses for process checking? I think it relies for unix on the 'ps' command. That is why i have problems with the process_select bodies. -- ******************************************************************** * Bas van der Vlies e-mail: b...@sara.nl * * SARA - Academic Computing Services Amsterdam, The Netherlands * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
