weber_w@apollo.HP.COM (Walt Weber) (12/16/89)
krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz) writes: >I've noticed that a number of Apollo supplied programs >manage to their process names (the ones shown by /com/pst) >no matter what name you use when you start the program. >Anyone have any idea how this is accomplished? Someone has already supplied the key to this one in an earlier posting, so I'll post the following Aegis shell script, written by a wizard whose cloak is no longer in use in the Chelmsford rings. Note that this is a PRE-sr10 script, which was most useful on sr9.7 systems when /bin/ps and /com/pst did not co-operate as closely as they do under Domain/OS. Apologies for the lines greater than 80 chars. ...walt... ================cut here=========================================== #!/com/sh eon SYSTYPE := bsd4.2 export SYSTYPE abtsev -max /bin/ps -axN | /com/chpat -o -a -p 'uid = {[~ ]*}?*[0-9]:[0-9][0-9] {[~ ]*}?*' '@1 @2' @ | while read uid pname do args ^uid | /com/chpat '.' ' ' | read hi lo args ^pname | /com/chpat '?*/' '' | read pname cnt := 1 oldname := ^pname while existf `node_data/proc_dir/^pname do if /bin/ps -axN | /com/fpat "%^pname" | read foo then pname := "^oldname.^cnt" cnt := ^cnt + 1 else dlf -du -f `node_data/proc_dir/^pname endif enddo /com/ctob `node_data/proc_dir/^pname ^hi ^lo enddo =================end cut=========================================== Walt Weber Hewlett Packard NARC @ Apollo Systems Division -The views expressed herein are personal, and not binding on ANYONE- "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it" -George Bernard Shaw