source: BOOK/final-system/common/psmisc.xml@ dd1df496

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<sect1 id="ch-system-psmisc" role="wrap">
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  <title>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc">
    <primary sortas="a-Psmisc">Psmisc</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information
    about running processes.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure \
    --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para os="h">Move the <command>killall</command> and
    <command>fuser</command> programs to the location specified by the
    FHS:</para>

<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/fuser /bin
mv -v /usr/bin/killall /bin</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>fuser, killall, peekfd, prtstat, pstree, pstree.x11
        (link to pstree)</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="fuser">
        <term><command>fuser</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
          files or file systems</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
            <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="killall">
        <term><command>killall</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
          running any of the given commands</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
            <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="peekfd">
        <term><command>peekfd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para> Peeks at file descriptors of running processes</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc peekfd">
            <primary sortas="b-peekfd">peekfd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="prtstat">
        <term><command>prtstat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Prints information about a process</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc prtstat">
            <primary sortas="b-prtstat">prtstat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pstree">
        <term><command>pstree</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
            <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
        <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
          confirmation before exiting</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
            <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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