retrieve environment variables for an arbitrary process

[goBoating]

More of a Perl programmer than HP-UX Sys Admin.

There are a few posts related to this, but, none of the answer work for me, yet.

I am in the situation of determining security compliance for a number of machines. The rule set I must check includes checking the environment variables for arbitrary processes. I don't know what process will be the target until the rule is read. So, I must collect the environment vars for a given process on the fly.

On other operating systems, this is trivial. I don't see a direct way to do it on HP-UX. I'm usually on 11.31, but, this chore needs to work on recent versions of HP-UX.

I hoped pstat_getproc would work, but, it does not return what would be considered the env vars.

Ideas?


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[goBoating]

Apparently, this is not possible without employing a tool like the Gnu Debugger or similar or rewriting that functionality.



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[longhair01]

goBoating,
did you check out the unix scripting forum?
there may be some ideas there.
Been almost a decade since i was on an hp-ux box and don't have one at the moment to test on.
hth.
regards,
longhair

 

[goBoating]

Thanks for the prompt, but, I've posted this same question to several HPUX specific fora (including on hp.com) and get the same answer. Have also spent a fair amount of time in white papers and man pages to no avail. HPUX doesn't do that trick with out something like GDB.

Thanks, anyway.


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