how to find location of executable which started a process

#1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:21 PM

I know pid of the process. I need to know the executable using which
this process was started. Please note that in my case 'ps' output does
not show complete pathname of the process. On Solaris I can use
command 'pmap' to get this information. The solution I am looking for,
needs to work across AIX 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2.

thanks,
-Prashant.

#2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:21 PM

Prashant wrote:
> I know pid of the process. I need to know the executable using which
> this process was started. Please note that in my case 'ps' output does
> not show complete pathname of the process. On Solaris I can use
> command 'pmap' to get this information. The solution I am looking for,
> needs to work across AIX 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2.
>
> thanks,
> -Prashant.

ps eww

Hth,

#3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 09:25 PM

"Horst.Scherzer" <Horst.Scherzer@univie.ac.at> wrote in message news:<3F812F55.3070805@univie.ac.at>...
> Prashant wrote:
> > I know pid of the process. I need to know the executable using which
> > this process was started. Please note that in my case 'ps' output does
> > not show complete pathname of the process. On Solaris I can use
> > command 'pmap' to get this information. The solution I am looking for,
> > needs to work across AIX 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -Prashant.
>
> ps eww
>
> Hth,

It worked. I could find the path from one of the environment
variables. Thanks a lot!

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