Linux Capabilities: CAP_SYS_NICE=ep results in AttachNotSupportedException on JDK11+ - linux

Currently running on a fedora machine with JDK 11.0.15, and java capabilities set to "cap_sys_nice+ep".
The command that I am testing is "jcmd JFR.start ....". However, I end up getting the error,
AttachNotSupportedException. Unable to open socket file tmp/attach_pid1234: "
"target process 1234 doesn't respond within 10000 ms"
Process 1234 was launched via JDK11.0.15 java with the CAP_SYS_NICE capability set.
However, when I attempt to do a Java Flight Recording, I always get the error above. jcmd does not have any capabilities set.
What really puzzles me is the fact that, given the same process run using JDK11.0.15, if I utilize jcmd from JDK8 or JDK7, everything works fine.
The only solution I have found is by giving JDK11.0.15 jcmd CAP_SYS_PTRACE=ep capabilities. Could anyone explain what exactly is going on in the background? Thanks.

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XSCT executes command in interactive shell but not within script

First, take note that I am using the Xilinx SDK 2018.2 on Kubuntu 22.04 because of my companies policy. I know from research, that the command I'm using is deprecated in newer versions, but in the version I am using, it works flawlessly - kind of... But read for yourself:
My task is to automate all steps in the FPGA build to create a pipeline which automatically builds and tests the FPGAs. To achieve this, I need to build the code - this works flawlessly in XSDK. For automation, this also has to work in the command line, so what I did is following the manual to find out how this is achieved. Everything works as expected if I write it in the interactive prompt like shown here:
user#ubuntuvm:~$ xsct
****** Xilinx Software Commandline Tool (XSCT) v2018.2
**** Build date : Jun 14 2018-20:18:43
** Copyright 1986-2018 Xilinx, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
xsct%
Then I can enter the commands I need to import all needed files and projects (hw, bsp, main project). With this toolset, everything works as expected.
Because I want to automate it via a pipeline, I decided to pack this into a script for easier access. The script contains exactly the commands I entered in the interactive shell and therefore looks like this:
user#ubuntuvm:~/gitrepos/repository$ cat ../autoBuildScript.tcl
setws /home/user/gitrepos/repository
openhw ./hps_packages/system.hdf
openbsp ./bsp_packages/system.mss
importprojects ./sources/mainApp
importprojects ./bsp_packages
importprojects ./hps_packages
regenbsp -bsp ./bsp_packages/system.mss
projects –clean
projects -build
The commands are identical to the ones entered via the interactive CLI tool, the only difference is that this is now packed into a script. The difference is, that this now does not build completely anymore. I get the following error:
user#ubuntuvm:~/gitrepos/repository$ xsct ../autoBuildScript.tcl
INFO: [Hsi 55-1698] elapsed time for repository loading 1 seconds
Starting xsdk. This could take few seconds... done
'mainApp' will not be imported... [ALREADY EXIST]
'bsp_packages' will not be imported... [ALREADY EXIST]
'hps_packages' will not be imported... [ALREADY EXIST]
/opt/Xilinx/SDK/2018.2/gnu/microblaze/lin
unexpected arguments: –clean
while executing
"error "unexpected arguments: $arglist""
(procedure "::xsdb::get_options" line 69)
invoked from within
"::xsdb::get_options args $options"
(procedure "projects" line 12)
invoked from within
"projects –clean"
(file "../autoBuildScript.tcl" line 8)
I've inserted projects -clean only, because I got the error before with projects -build and wanted to check, if this also happens with another argument.
In the internet I didn't really find anything according to my specific problem. Also I strictly held on to the official manual, in which the command is also used just as I use it - but with the result of it being working.
Also, I've checked the line endings (set to UNIX) because I suspected xsct to read maybe a newline character or something similar, with no result. This error also occurs, when I create the bsp and hardware from sketch. Also, to me the error looks like an internal one from Xilinx, but let me know what you think.
So, it appears that I just fixed the problem on my own. Thanks on everyone reading for being my rubber ducky.
Apparently, the version 2018.2 of XSDK has a few bugs, including inconsistency with their command interpretation. For some reason the command works in the interactive shell, but not in the script - because the command is in its short form. I just learned from a Xilinx tutorial, that projects -build is - even though it works - apparently not the full command. You usually need to clarify, that this command should come from the SDK like this: sdk projects -build. The interactive shell seems to ignore this fact for a reason - and so does the script for any command except projects. Therefore, I added the "sdk" prefix to all commands which I used from the SDK, just to be safe.
I cannot believe, that I just debugged 2 days for an error whose fix only contains 3 (+1 whitespace) letters.
Thanks everybody for reading and have a nice day

Detecting what apps are open in python [duplicate]

I amm writing a little python script that will grab information from VMs of Windows that I am running.
At the moment I can list the processes on a 32bit XP machine with the following method:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/305279/
Is it possible to somehow detect the version of windows running and excute a different method for getting the processes on a 64bit machine, I am trying to get the processes from a 64Bit Vista and 64bit Windows 7.
Any ideas?
If you don't want to rely on any extra installed modules then you can parse the output of wmic, e.g.:
c:\> wmic process get description,executablepath
...
explorer.exe C:\Windows\explorer.exe
cmd.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe
conhost.exe C:\Windows\system32\conhost.exe
...
Reference: http://geekpedia.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/use-command-line-to-track-windows-processes/
There is another recipe on activestate that does a similar thing, but uses the Performance Data Helper library (PDH) instead.
I have tested this on my Windows 7 64bit machine and it works there - so presumably the same function will work on both 32bit and 64 bit windows.
You can find the recipe here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/303339/
Another method is using WMI, there is an example here in Python using the wmi module:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/cookbook.html
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for process in c.Win32_Process ():
print process.ProcessId, process.Name
The cleanest way I found to solve this was to use the psutil library as recommended by Robert Lujo:
psutil.process_iter()
Note that it returns a generator object, issuing a process object at a time. For example if you need the list of process names, you can do something like:
[p.name() for p in psutil.process_iter()]
For similar purposes I have used psutil library. Some hints:
list processes with psutil.pids() (reference)
inspect process information with process = psutil.Process(pid) (reference)
do process.kill or process.terminate()
Installation on windows - pip will do installation from the source (which means compiling), so you probably want to download binary installation from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/psutil/#downloads.
You should be able to do this by exposing Windows Management Instrumentation within each VM. This tool gives you access to a bunch of system data, including processes, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757287%28WS.10%29.aspx
You should be able to popen one of the commands in the preceding link to get the info you're looking for.

Why is the stdout empty when running "python --version" from groovy?

I am currently working on a pre-flight-check script for the Apache PLC4X project. There I check the existence of required third party tools and their versions.
If I run "python --version" on the commandline, I get a nice response.
However if I run it in Groovy:
print "Detecting Python version: "
def output = ("python --version").execute().text
I just get an empty string.
All the other tools don't show this behavior. All others have the console output in "output".
How can I do the check I want to do? What am I doing wrong?
Don't assume everything you see on the terminal comes via standard output.
Informational messages are frequently sent to standard error instead, to avoid having them get caught in any processing pipelines (which was why the two channels were created way back in the early UNIX days).

How to request NASMT Q700 QNAP linux hard disk smart states using the ssh interface?

I use a NASMT Q700 QNAP NAS. For remote monitoring purposes i want to read some values and save them into a database.
Since the web-interface is very complex and full of javascript, i can not scrape it. So I tried to connect to the NAS with SSH.
Which is great, because SSH is one of the methods, that i can connect with automatically with c# and I get back text that I can parse.
The installed Linux system on the box is a :
Linux NASMT 2.6.33.2 #1 Fri Mar 7 11:55:22 CST 2014 armv5tel unknown
I tried to reach my goal:
man is not installed.
smartctl is not installed. (Google told me to try this out)
I went into the /bin and /usr/bin directories and tried everything suspecious. There seems to be a program called nasutil installed. Only that it is not very self documenting. Various calls with different parameters did not work, i always get the same answer:
nasutil multi-call binary
[function] [arguments]...
Current defined functions:
init_nas_cache, init_admin_group, set_file_owner, chk_flash, reset_all, chk10198, get_trusted_domain, update_krb5_ticket
rescan_hd, check_e2key, burn_e2key, cnt_phy_nic, http_link, ip_filter, hdusb_copy, ims, qpkg, gen_upnp_desc, scanafpdb
eset_system, umount_all_vdd, sss_convert, httpd_init, get_hwsn, get_suid, setsum, getsum, rsyslog_util, radius_util, send_alert_mail, rsync_util
acl_cmd check_ldap clean_reset_pwd network_boot_rescan
I used google on this one but could not find anything useful.
I am looking for a command on this linux system without smartctl to give me a list of the installed hard drives with their SMART status.
Has anyone an idea?
Thank you very much in advance!
actually, I was able to find the answer using email and contacts at Fujitsu.
The answer was simple as can be:
# get_hd_smartinfo -d 1
1 is disk 1. Replace with 2 if want to check disk 2.
I did not test it yet, as soon as I have, i'll accept the answer for everyone to see.

Issues running FSL command in Linux environment

I am new to FSL, using version 4.1.8. I am trying to run a script that reads and generates *.nii files, which format is normally supported by FSL. I am calling an FSL function, probtrackx from within Matlab. However, I get the following error message seemingly unable to generate or recognize *.nii files:
** ERROR (nifti_image_read): failed to find header file for '~/Documents/fMRI_data/../DTI/fsl_dti/masks/target_mask_001'
** ERROR: nifti_image_open(~/Documents/fMRI_data/../DTI/fsl_dti/masks/target_mask_001): bad header info
ERROR: failed to open file ~/Documents/fMRI_data/../DTI/fsl_dti/masks/target_mask_001
ERROR: Could not open image ~/Documents/fMRI_data/../DTI/fsl_dti/masks/target_mask_001
The files do exist but FSL fails to recognize them. Any help as to how to correct the issue and get FSL to work properly would be most appreciated. I suspect it's a Linux settings issue, just not sure how to fix it. A solution to a related problem in a previous posting suggested adding ls='ls --color=auto'. I've tried it to on avail.
Some FSL tools assume that the $FSLDIR unix unvironment variable is set, which might not be the case in your MATLAB environment. You can fix that with something like setenv('FSLDIR', '/usr/local/fsl') (modified of course if your FSL installation is in a different place). Some also need the regular FSL setup script to be executed as well: system('. ${FSLDIR}/etc/fslconf/fsl.sh'). See also: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fsl/downloading.html.
Instead of the more complicated probtrackx script, another thing to try first is simply:
system('fslhd ~/Documents/fMRI_data/../DTI/fsl_dti/masks/target_mask_001')
If this fails with the same error, then you know that you entered the path to the data incorrectly. For example, do you mean to have the .. in there?
Also, in the future, the best place to get FSL support is on their mailing list at: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=fsl
Does MATLAB have access to run other fsl commands? If you are able to run a command from the command line but not through MATLAB, the MATLAB user may not have access to run fsl or may be looking for some FSL variables.
You might have to do the equivalent of this for a linux system

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