Solaris

we aheva couple of old sun OS boxes, that we are trying to parse /usr/ucb/ps output.

However it seems that something is occuring that is causeing th output of "/usr/ucb/ps -auxwww" to cut short the process name, whereas "ps -eaf" can display the entire process name.

It will work for a while following a system reboot, but would liek to understand what might cause it to be shortened.

When it is shortened output, the command name always gets truncated at the same spot.

Thanks

You posted that /usr/ucb/ps has the problem of truncation - is that correct?

I ask because most folks have the trouble the other way - see this thread

yeah /usr/ucb/ps. its weird because its intermittent. something is hosing the proc tables. we can get the full command line from ps -eaf but need to use /usr/ucb/ps -auxwww because our paths can be quite long in some cases.

it can be fixed by a reboot most times and is not specific a certain system.

if you could offer another way to get long command line names for running processes we could try workaorunds to avoid using ps at all.

I haven't ofound any third party type program sthat will work. these are running solaris 2.5.1 also so that crimps plans for some things like psperl and such.