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Werk #6550: Fixed warning "bad ps syntax" when stopping a site on e.g. SLES11

Component Site management
Title Fixed warning "bad ps syntax" when stopping a site on e.g. SLES11
Date Sep 5, 2018
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.6.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT
1.5.0p4 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

When using older ps versions like procps 3.2.7, which is used e.g. on SLES11, a warning message like this was displayed when executing "omd stop" on a site:

Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html Stopping 1 remaining site processes...OK

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