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Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Process Recovery Using the  Configuration Variable

You can use the /AgentSetup/ defaultAccountShell configuration variable to specify the shell that you want PATROL Agent to use for the processes spawned. If you set this variable with a proper value, PROCESS_PRESENCE uses this shell as a default shell to start and stop the process.

By default, this variable is not available in the config.default file. You must create this variable manually by using the wpconfig (Windows), xpconfig (UNIX), PATROL Configuration Manager, or a PSL pconfig script such as:

%PSL pconfig("REPLACE", "/AgentSetup/defaultAccountShell", "new shell")

If you set the variable to NULL, PROCESS_PRESENCE uses /bin/sh as a default shell for process recovery.

 

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BMC PATROL for UNIX and Linux 9.13