How to get the full process command line on Solaris 10

Did you try 'ps -ef' or 'ps -el' ?

wmp

They only show the truncated command lines of the processes. What I need is to see the full command line.

You could customize the output of ps using the -o option.
-o args  gives the complete command including all arguments, afaik.
Choose additional output fields as you desire.

I want to see all the args of the command, as we have many processes started by the same program with different parameters. It is really hard to tell which pid is for which application w/o knowning all the args.

The Solaris impl of "ps -o args" limits the output to 80 bytes. On Solaris 8, the command "/usr/ucb/ps -avxww" provides the whole args details.

ps -ef show the full process command line. What type of terminal are you connecting from?

Hi

In order to have Solaris 8/9 functionality of ps check the below article. You need to tweak ps a little bit to have that full functionality :

http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2007/12/old-style-ps-on-solaris-10.html

Thanks for the help. The "u" instead of "v" really makes the difference in Solaris 10.

Sorry, let me take it back. It doesn't make too much differences between "u" and "v". Instead, it works by default when run as "root". Yesterday when I verified the "u" solution, I was accidentally running as "root" on the machine. I didn't try the "v" one as I was so excited to see it work.

I googled and found the following link which well explained the mystery:
http://www.unixforum.co.uk/index.php?s=ef50e74f209a8e5e626e153f8bf45120&showtopic=28097&pid=30064&mode=threaded&start=#entry30064