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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Ps command different behaviour Post 302984624 by Albert_Pinto7 on Friday 28th of October 2016 08:59:13 AM
Old 10-28-2016
Even if we set COLUMNS=50 and then export it, any user can come around this restriction using ps -ww
Also, in unix, by default the output of ps command is curtailed to I think 70 chars and that does not go away even if you use ps -ww. But unix provides full output to the user who actually ran that particular command. Its just that other users can only see the curtailed output.
e.g if an user say albert ran a program having a long param chain. If albert himself runs ps command, he can see the full length of his command under ps list, but say another user jim runs the ps command, he can only see the curtailed output of the command (which albert had put to run). Even -ww option used by jim wont enable him to get the full command output.
Having said this, jim can see full output(more than 70 chars) of his programs under ps output list.
 

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UUX(1C) 																   UUX(1C)

NAME
uux - unix to unix command execution SYNOPSIS
uux [ - ] command-string DESCRIPTION
Uux will gather 0 or more files from various systems, execute a command on a specified system and send standard output to a file on a spec- ified system. The command-string is made up of one or more arguments that look like a shell command line, except that the command and file names may be prefixed by system-name!. A null system-name is interpreted as the local system. File names may be one of(1) a full pathname; (2) a pathname preceded by ~xxx; where xxx is a userid on the specified system and is replaced by that user's login directory; (3) anything else is prefixed by the current directory. The `-' option will cause the standard input to the uux command to be the standard input to the command-string. For example, the command uux "!diff usg!/usr/dan/f1 pwba!/a4/dan/f1 > !fi.diff" will get the f1 files from the usg and pwba machines, execute a diff command and put the results in f1.diff in the local directory. Any special shell characters such as <>;| should be quoted either by quoting the entire command-string, or quoting the special characters as individual arguments. FILES
/usr/uucp/spool - spool directory /usr/uucp/* - other data and programs SEE ALSO
uucp(1) D. A. Nowitz, Uucp implementation description WARNING
An installation may, and for security reasons generally will, limit the list of commands executable on behalf of an incoming request from uux. Typically, a restricted site will permit little other than the receipt of mail via uux. BUGS
Only the first command of a shell pipeline may have a system-name!. All other commands are executed on the system of the first command. The use of the shell metacharacter * will probably not do what you want it to do. The shell tokens << and >> are not implemented. There is no notification of denial of execution on the remote machine. UUX(1C)
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