On 19-11-10 12:09, Bas van der Vlies wrote: > 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. >
Sorry i did not read it correctly. every platform has a 'process table access code' . But for quick/simple fix we can adjust the ps command to only return the fields we are interested in. works on most platforms. Btw the 'top' source is a good starting point and for linux it is 'simple' as shown with the small example. -- ******************************************************************** * 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
