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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-psmisc" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="psmisc.html"?>
10
11 <title>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc">
14 <primary sortas="a-Psmisc">Psmisc</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information
21 about running processes.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>
27
28 <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
29
[e0e40d3]30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]31
[e0e40d3]32 <variablelist os="c">
[3f8be484]33 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
34
35 <varlistentry>
36 <term><parameter>--exec-prefix=""</parameter></term>
37 <listitem>
38 <para>This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into
39 <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> instead of
40 <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. This is the
41 correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc
[fb40919]42 binaries are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
[3f8be484]43 </listitem>
44 </varlistentry>
45 </variablelist>
46
[e0e40d3]47 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[3f8be484]48
[e0e40d3]49<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]50
[d1631d1]51 <para os="f">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
[3f8be484]52
[d1631d1]53 <para os="g">Install the package:</para>
[3f8be484]54
[d1631d1]55<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para os="i">There is no reason for the <command>pstree</command> and
[3f8be484]58 <command>pstree.x11</command> programs to reside in <filename
59 class="directory">/bin</filename>. Therefore, move them to <filename
60 class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>:</para>
61
[d1631d1]62<screen os="j"><userinput>mv -v /bin/pstree* /usr/bin</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]63
[d1631d1]64 <para os="k">By default, Psmisc's <command>pidof</command> program is not installed.
[3f8be484]65 This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit
66 package, which provides a better <command>pidof</command> program. If
67 Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation
68 of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:</para>
69
[84c7db2]70<screen os="l" role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sv killall /bin/pidof</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]71
72 </sect2>
73
74 <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
75 <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>
76
77 <segmentedlist>
78 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
79
80 <seglistitem>
[2b220db9]81 <seg>fuser, killall, peekfd, prtstat, pstree, and pstree.x11
82 (link to pstree)</seg>
[3f8be484]83 </seglistitem>
84 </segmentedlist>
85
86 <variablelist>
87 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
88 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
89 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
90
91 <varlistentry id="fuser">
92 <term><command>fuser</command></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
95 files or file systems</para>
96 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
97 <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
98 </indexterm>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 <varlistentry id="killall">
103 <term><command>killall</command></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
106 running any of the given commands</para>
107 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
108 <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
109 </indexterm>
110 </listitem>
111 </varlistentry>
112
[427015f]113 <varlistentry id="peekfd">
114 <term><command>peekfd</command></term>
115 <listitem>
116 <para> Peeks at file descriptors of running processes</para>
117 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc peekfd">
118 <primary sortas="b-peekfd">peekfd</primary>
119 </indexterm>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
[2b220db9]123 <varlistentry id="prtstat">
124 <term><command>prtstat</command></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>Prints information about a process</para>
127 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc prtstat">
128 <primary sortas="b-prtstat">prtstat</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
[3f8be484]133 <varlistentry id="pstree">
134 <term><command>pstree</command></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
137 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
138 <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
139 </indexterm>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
144 <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
147 confirmation before exiting</para>
148 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
149 <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
150 </indexterm>
151 </listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153
154 </variablelist>
155
156 </sect2>
157
158</sect1>
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