Monitoring processes and machines (program itself and central)

[Kriss Hougland~]

I'm intrested in being able to keep tabs on our whole domain.  That way, when 
people log off for the day; it's usable CPU time!  The unfortune problem is
that sometimes the programs crash and burn by themselves and sometimes ye old
operator does a kill -9 one them.

What I am wondering is:
1) Where can I find say the source code for a "ps" function so I don't have
to C shell out and get the info.

2) I'm trying to find the "ofiles" on a comp.source.unix machine. (so far
no luck.)

3) I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to totally swap out the program
(context or whatever) so I can resume execution later. Or at worst, have a 
central program (daemon time) that will kill it remotely.  (like when someone
comes in the morning and logs on, I want to either kill the process via a
central program on another machine -- trying to use sockets now, or swap out
the program so people don't gripe and get the operator to do a #9 on it.)

Currently, I don't have source for the number crunching programs.

Please post any comments or suggestions.  I hope I have not screwed up my 
point, but I have a feeling that other people might be intrested in 
distributive computing the chuncky way other than using "at".

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khouglan at hopi.intel.com ! my employer.   "Opportunity came knocking, but I was
askah at acvax.inre.asu.edu!                 in the bathroom."  (ME)