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Operating Systems Solaris 8 character limit for ipcs command , any way to increase # of chars ? Post 302848641 by icalderus on Thursday 29th of August 2013 04:16:53 PM
Old 08-29-2013
8 character limit for ipcs command , any way to increase # of chars ?

Hello All,

We have a working script which identifies and kills ipcs resources which havent been correctly killed during normal shutdowns.
It is working fine and dandy however there are some issues now.

Environment:

Code:
SunOS 5.10 Generic_148888-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise

Problem :

Our target search string has increased by 1 character from 8 chars to 9. What I am observing @ this point is the ipcs -a | grep (9 char string) is returning blank results. The increase in characters is due to new naming conventions. So while it may be easy to say , "simply use an 8 char database", in practicality it is over my head.


Desired Solution:

I need to find a way to get ipcs to be able to identify resources associated with a 9 char search string. From what I have read so far I havent dug up an environment var or quick fix for this issue. I have also dug through a few posts here in the forum in the hopes of finding a solution.

Code Example:

a) Working:

Code:
      ipcs -a | grep 1245678

b) Not working

Code:
       ipcs -a | grep 123456789

Anything you can offer is appreciated!

There are logic tweaks I can make to the script however out of curiosity I would like to learn more about ipcs on solaris. Constantly hungry for skills!

Thank you! Smilie

Last edited by Scott; 08-29-2013 at 08:00 PM.. Reason: Code tags
 

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IPCS(1) 							   User Commands							   IPCS(1)

NAME
ipcs - show information on IPC facilities SYNOPSIS
ipcs [options] DESCRIPTION
ipcs shows information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read access. By default it shows information about all three resources: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays. OPTIONS
-i, --id id Show full details on just the one resource element identified by id. This option needs to be combined with one of the three resource options: -m, -q or -s. -h, --help Display help text and exit. -V, --version Display version information and exit. Resource options -m, --shmems Write information about active shared memory segments. -q, --queues Write information about active message queues. -s, --semaphores Write information about active semaphore sets. -a, --all Write information about all three resources (default). Output formats Of these options only one takes effect: the last one specified. -c, --creator Show creator and owner. -l, --limits Show resource limits. -p, --pid Show PIDs of creator and last operator. -t, --time Write time information. The time of the last control operation that changed the access permissions for all facilities, the time of the last msgsnd(2) and msgrcv(2) operations on message queues, the time of the last shmat(2) and shmdt(2) operations on shared mem- ory, and the time of the last semop(2) operation on semaphores. -u, --summary Show status summary. Representation These affect only the -l (--limits) option. -b, --bytes Print sizes in bytes. --human Print sizes in human-readable format. SEE ALSO
ipcmk(1), ipcrm(1), msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semget(2), semop(2), shmat(2), shmdt(2), shmget(2) CONFORMING TO
The Linux ipcs utility is not fully compatible to the POSIX ipcs utility. The Linux version does not support the POSIX -a, -b and -o options, but does support the -l and -u options not defined by POSIX. A portable application shall not use the -a, -b, -o, -l, and -u options. AUTHOR
Krishna Balasubramanian <balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu> AVAILABILITY
The ipcs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util- linux/>. util-linux July 2014 IPCS(1)
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