Since the thread dump comes from the JVM can't you just start it up like:

java YourProgram 2>&1 > /tmp/thread_dump

That way anything that comes out of the process on stdout or stderr will
fall into that file.
  -M@

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Matt Hixson
Aventail Corporation
Seattle, Washington
www.aventail.com

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Gene Chuang wrote:

> Depends on your operating system.  For Solaris/Unix, it's 'ps'.
>
> While we're on the topic of Java processes, I've got a question:
>
> We're running Solaris 2.7 + JDK 1.3.1, and I find one of the best debugging
> "tools" for our J2EE application is 'kill -3 xxx', where xxx is the process
> id.  This of course produces a full thread dump and is extremely useful in
> diagnosing a hung or deadlocked server.  However, I was wondering if anyone
> know how to redirect this output to, say, a log file, instead of standard
> out?  I've tried playing around with a all other kill signals (1-9), a
> couple of them do produce a log file;  but not with the thread dump.
>
> Gene
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sankaran, Rajesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: How to find process id of a java process?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This may not be an appropriate question in this list, but could someone
> through light or directions on how to find out process id of a java process?
>
> Thanks.
> Rajesh
>
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