Re: pgmonitor on solaris

> > Roberto Joo Lopes Garcia writes:
> >> Is there a pgmonitor version for Solaris?? It dies with:
> >>
> >> Can't run 'ps': awk: syntax error near line 3
> >> awk: illegal statement near line 3
> >> awk: illegal statement near line 4
> >> Please send in a patch.
>
> Looks like your problem is not with ps, but with awk. pgmonitor uses
> a rather complicated awk program that is probably not too portable.
> I hadn't complained about it before because I checked that it worked
> with the vendor awk in HPUX, which I figured ought to be sufficiently
> behind the times ;-). Looks like I was mistaken. Bruce, can you
> simplify that awk program?

I can't figure out how to simplify it, but I did find the use of \{
instead of { in the code and released a new version, 0.27. Hopefully
that will take care of it. If not, I can start stripping lines out of
the awk program until we fine the problem.

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