ps -eH | grep java output in a active passive clustered output

johnkalikavunkal · 01-29-2009, 11:03 PM

Hi everyone,

we are having an ACTIVE PASSIVE clustered environment, Redhat Cluster Suite 4. It is used for the application Tomcat, which uses the java.

My question is that whenever we check the status of the service JAVA, using the command

# ps -eH | grep java

as output we get

4652 ? 00:01:34 java

what does this QUESTION mark in the output of ps command specify to.

In a normal scenario i.e., without clustering this QUESTION mark will not be there. I tested it by creating a test setup with same OS, RHEL 4 and same version of Tomcat and java.

Thanks in advance

robertjinx · 01-30-2009, 04:48 PM

That means that java is not started from the terminal, non-tty start-up lets say.

Its not a problem, just ignore.

Try next time with ps -ef|grep -i java|grep -v grep

Good luck!

johnkalikavunkal · 01-30-2009, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertjinx

That means that java is not started from the terminal, non-tty start-up lets say.

Its not a problem, just ignore.

Try next time with ps -ef|grep -i java|grep -v grep

Good luck!

thanks robert for your reply, thankyou very much