> There are problems with the slon start & kill scripts
> on RH9.  The watchdog keeps giving error messages about
> bad dashes and pointing the user to faq for procps.
>
> Then when you try to slon_kill it only succeeds in
> killing the watchdog because it errors out on the
> dash errors. You have to run it twice before killing
> off the slon processes.

Oh, dear.

There are evidently some variations between differing Linux
implementations as to how they cope with ps flags.

I think we have enough flavours of Linux around the office to be able to
check for different behaviours.  Red Hat, Debian, and SuSE should cover a
goodly number of bases.

I'll have to take a look tomorrow.