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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-psmisc" role="wrap">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="psmisc.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Psmisc">Psmisc</primary>
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| 15 | </indexterm>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 | <title/>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information
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| 21 | about running processes.</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | </sect2>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 26 | <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
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| 29 |
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[e0e40d3] | 30 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</userinput></screen>
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[3f8be484] | 31 |
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[e0e40d3] | 32 | <variablelist os="c">
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[3f8be484] | 33 | <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <varlistentry>
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| 36 | <term><parameter>--exec-prefix=""</parameter></term>
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| 37 | <listitem>
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| 38 | <para>This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into
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| 39 | <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> instead of
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| 40 | <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. This is the
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| 41 | correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc
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[fb40919] | 42 | binaries are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
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[3f8be484] | 43 | </listitem>
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| 44 | </varlistentry>
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| 45 | </variablelist>
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| 46 |
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[e0e40d3] | 47 | <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
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[3f8be484] | 48 |
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[e0e40d3] | 49 | <screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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[3f8be484] | 50 |
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[d1631d1] | 51 | <para os="f">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
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[3f8be484] | 52 |
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[d1631d1] | 53 | <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
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[3f8be484] | 54 |
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[d1631d1] | 55 | <screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 56 |
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| 57 | <para os="i">There is no reason for the <command>pstree</command> and
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[3f8be484] | 58 | <command>pstree.x11</command> programs to reside in <filename
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| 59 | class="directory">/bin</filename>. Therefore, move them to <filename
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| 60 | class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>:</para>
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| 61 |
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[d1631d1] | 62 | <screen os="j"><userinput>mv -v /bin/pstree* /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
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[3f8be484] | 63 |
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[d1631d1] | 64 | <para os="k">By default, Psmisc's <command>pidof</command> program is not installed.
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[3f8be484] | 65 | This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit
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| 66 | package, which provides a better <command>pidof</command> program. If
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| 67 | Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation
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| 68 | of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:</para>
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| 69 |
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[84c7db2] | 70 | <screen os="l" role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sv killall /bin/pidof</userinput></screen>
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[3f8be484] | 71 |
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| 72 | </sect2>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
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| 75 | <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <segmentedlist>
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| 78 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <seglistitem>
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| 81 | <seg>fuser, killall, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)</seg>
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| 82 | </seglistitem>
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| 83 | </segmentedlist>
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| 84 |
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| 85 | <variablelist>
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| 86 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 87 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 88 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 89 |
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| 90 | <varlistentry id="fuser">
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| 91 | <term><command>fuser</command></term>
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| 92 | <listitem>
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| 93 | <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
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| 94 | files or file systems</para>
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| 95 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
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| 96 | <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
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| 97 | </indexterm>
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| 98 | </listitem>
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| 99 | </varlistentry>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | <varlistentry id="killall">
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| 102 | <term><command>killall</command></term>
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| 103 | <listitem>
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| 104 | <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
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| 105 | running any of the given commands</para>
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| 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
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| 107 | <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
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| 108 | </indexterm>
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| 109 | </listitem>
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| 110 | </varlistentry>
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| 111 |
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[a68b59e] | 112 | <varlistentry id="oldfuser">
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| 113 | <term><command>oldfuser</command></term>
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| 114 | <listitem>
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| 115 | <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
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| 116 | files or file systems</para>
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| 117 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc oldfuser">
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| 118 | <primary sortas="b-oldfuser">oldfuser</primary>
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| 119 | </indexterm>
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| 120 | </listitem>
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| 121 | </varlistentry>
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| 122 |
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[3f8be484] | 123 | <varlistentry id="pstree">
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| 124 | <term><command>pstree</command></term>
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| 125 | <listitem>
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| 126 | <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
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| 127 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
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| 128 | <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
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| 129 | </indexterm>
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| 130 | </listitem>
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| 131 | </varlistentry>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
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| 134 | <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
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| 135 | <listitem>
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| 136 | <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
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| 137 | confirmation before exiting</para>
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| 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
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| 139 | <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
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| 140 | </indexterm>
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| 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 | </varlistentry>
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| 143 |
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| 144 | </variablelist>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | </sect2>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | </sect1>
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