Re: Showing pid and ppid

[Christian Hopp]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Santiago Dobon wrote:

Hi!

Could it be, that monit was started as unprivileged user?  It needs to be 
started as root on Solaris, in order to gather those data.

Christian

> I have recently installed and configured monit on a Sparc-Solaris 8 machine. 
> Monit checks some process correctly, but does not show the pid nor the ppid 
> of those process. Does the pid file need to be written on any special format?
>
> I have modified the file validate.c to include the line "s->inf->pid= pid" 
> and it works OK, now showing the pid.
>
> I still have not found out what to do for the ppid. Any idea?
>
> Compiling the same brandnew 4.5.1 version on a PC-Linux I get the correct pid 
> and other information such as the CPU and memory usage. What could I do to 
> achieve this information on the Sparc-Solaris 8 machine?