LINUX: "ps" Command To Check The Complete Arguments Of Processes Like Java or Other Processes (How To Doc)

Usually Middleware applications or Application Server java process will have long startup arguments when the process startups. In some cases there may be need to check the complete arguments of java or other processes. For that scenarios below "ps" command can be used which will list the compute java process.

ps -auxww

Below is snippet of above command. As seen from below output we see complete startup arguments of the java process.

appuser    8928  5.2  3.6 5572052 1189192 ?     Sl   Feb15 1420:02 /app-share/java/bin/java -server -Xms512m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Dweblogic.Name=AdminServer -Djava.security.policy=/app-share/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/weblogic.policy -Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=127.0.0.1:8453,server=y,suspend=n -da:org.apache.myfaces.trinidad -da -Dplatform.home=/app-share/Middleware/wlserver_10.3 -Dwls.home=/app-share/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server -Dweblogic.home=/app-share/Middleware/wlserver_10.3/server -Dcommon.components.home=/app-share/Middleware/testapp_common -Djrf.version=11.1.1 -Ddomain.home=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain -Djrockit.optfile=/app-share/Middleware/testapp_common/modules/testapp.jrf_11.1.1/jrocket_optfile.txt -Dtestapp.server.config.dir=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/config/fmwconfig/servers/AdminServer -Dtestapp.domain.config.dir=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/config/fmwconfig -Digf.arisidbeans.carmlloc=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/config/fmwconfig/carml -Digf.arisidstack.home=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/config/fmwconfig/arisidprovider -Dtestapp.security.jps.config=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/config/fmwconfig/jps-config.xml -Dtestapp.deployed.app.dir=/app-share/ovm-manager-3/machine1/base_adf_domain/servers/AdminServer/tmp/_WL_user -Dtestapp.deployed.app.ext=/- -Dweblogic.alternateTypesDirectory=/app-share/Middleware/testapp_common/modules/testapp.ossoiap_11.1.1,/app-share/Middleware/testapp_common/modules/testapp.oamprovider_11.1.1 -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=testapp.mds.net.protocol -Dweblogic.jdbc.remoteEnabled=false -Dweblogic.management.discover=true -Dwlw.iterativeDev=false -Dwlw.testConsole=false -Dwlw.logErrorsToConsole=false -Dweblogic.ext.dirs=/app-share/Middleware/patch_wls1035/profiles/default/sysext_manifest_classpath:/app-share/Middleware/patch_ocp360/profiles/default/sysext_manifest_classpath weblogic.Server
testapp    9192  0.0  0.1 8686200 53728 ?       Sl   Feb15  18:01 /app-share/java/bin/java -cp /app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/classes:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/Model.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/OvmClient.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/slf4j-log4j12.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/log4j.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/org.apache.commons.logging.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/sshd-core.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/mina-core.jar:/app-share/ovm-manager-3/ovm_cli/lib/slf4j-api.jar -Dlog4j.configuration=file:./log4j.properties com.testapp.ovm.cli.CLIMain

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All Linux and UNIX Environments.

tarun boyella