UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I don't think the ps that is shipped with HP-UX will understand BSD-style options, but in case I'm wrong, try:
ps auw

Also, it may understand the Unix98 (I think) ps options:
ps -efw

And just to refresh my memory, HP-UX 11 doesn't use the /proc filesystem, does it? If I'm mistaken, and it actually does, try :
ll /proc/(pid#)/exe

Try

ps eww <process number>

It'll give you the full command and the environment variables
when the process was created

GOOD LUCK

HP-UX, at present, can support UNIX95 but not UNIX98. And UNIX98 does not support a -w option to ps anyway. To verify that I followed the link that Neo added to the standard. The language is very interesting... And later... HP, for better or worse, wanted to be able to obtain a high security rating for HP-UX. Their B level version of HP-UX is a different product, but it shares much code with plain old HP-UX. Not only does HP's ps have no way of displaying the environment variables of other processes, but there is no way to do that under HP-UX. The only reason that ps has any shot of displaying the command line is that the kernel saves a copy of the command as it exec()'s a process. But the area where it is saved is only 64 bytes. There is no hope of writing a version of ps that displays more than that on HP-UX short of modifying the kernel to save more of the command line.

I'm not sure what "ll /proc/$pid/exe" is supposed to do. But there is no standard for what a /proc filesystem contains. On SunOS, I went to a /proc entry and did an ls. I got:

Code:

as        ctl       lpsinfo   lwp       pagedata  root      usage
auxv      cwd       lstatus   map       psinfo    sigact    watch
cred      fd        lusage    object    rmap      status    xmap

And none of those files is ascii data that be simply printed out. But HP-UX has no /proc filesystem anyway.

Sorry for the bad news, folks. But there are some differences among the various versions of UNIX. You can't take everything you know about your own version of UNIX and assume that it will work everywhere.