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Last change on this file since 271a409 was 69358a8, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 16 years ago

Add i18n patch to Procps.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-procps" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="procps.html"?>
10
11 <title>Procps-&procps-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps">
14 <primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Procps package contains programs for monitoring
21 processes.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Procps</title>
27
28 <para os="p3">This patch adds support for Internationalization:</para>
29
30<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&procps-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen>
31
32 <para os="a">Compile the package:</para>
33
34<screen os="b"><userinput>make CPPFLAGS= lib64=lib m64=</userinput></screen>
35
36 <para os="c">Install the package:</para>
37
38<screen os="d"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} lib64=lib m64= ldconfig= \
39 install="install -D" install</userinput></screen>
40
41 <variablelist os="e">
42 <title>The meaning of the make options:</title>
43 <varlistentry>
44 <term><parameter>CPPFLAGS=</parameter></term>
45 <listitem>
46 <para>By default, procps tries to include the host system
47 ncurses headers, so we have to disable that.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 </varlistentry>
50
51 <varlistentry>
52 <term><parameter>lib64=lib</parameter></term>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>By default, procps will attempt to install into
55 <filename class="directory">/lib64</filename> if it
56 exists, even if the package is not built 64-bit. This option
57 forces procps to install its libraries into
58 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> instead.</para>
59 </listitem>
60 </varlistentry>
61 </variablelist>
62
63 </sect2>
64
65 <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content">
66 <title>Contents of Procps</title>
67
68 <segmentedlist>
69 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
70 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
71
72 <seglistitem>
73 <seg>free, kill, pgrep, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop, snice, sysctl,
74 tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
75 <seg>libproc.so</seg>
76 </seglistitem>
77 </segmentedlist>
78
79 <variablelist>
80 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
81 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
82 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
83
84 <varlistentry id="free">
85 <term><command>free</command></term>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>Reports the amount of free and used memory (both physical and
88 swap memory) in the system</para>
89 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free">
90 <primary sortas="b-free">free</primary>
91 </indexterm>
92 </listitem>
93 </varlistentry>
94
95 <varlistentry id="kill">
96 <term><command>kill</command></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Sends signals to processes</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps kill">
100 <primary sortas="b-kill">kill</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="pgrep">
106 <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
109 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep">
110 <primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary>
111 </indexterm>
112 </listitem>
113 </varlistentry>
114
115 <varlistentry id="pkill">
116 <term><command>pkill</command></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>Signals processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
119 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill">
120 <primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary>
121 </indexterm>
122 </listitem>
123 </varlistentry>
124
125 <varlistentry id="pmap">
126 <term><command>pmap</command></term>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>Reports the memory map of the given process</para>
129 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap">
130 <primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary>
131 </indexterm>
132 </listitem>
133 </varlistentry>
134
135 <varlistentry id="ps">
136 <term><command>ps</command></term>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>Lists the current running processes</para>
139 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps">
140 <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
141 </indexterm>
142 </listitem>
143 </varlistentry>
144
145 <varlistentry id="pwdx">
146 <term><command>pwdx</command></term>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>Reports the current working directory of a process</para>
149 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pwdx">
150 <primary sortas="b-pwdx">pwdx</primary>
151 </indexterm>
152 </listitem>
153 </varlistentry>
154
155 <varlistentry id="skill">
156 <term><command>skill</command></term>
157 <listitem>
158 <para>Sends signals to processes matching the given criteria</para>
159 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill">
160 <primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary>
161 </indexterm>
162 </listitem>
163 </varlistentry>
164
165 <varlistentry id="slabtop">
166 <term><command>slabtop</command></term>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>Displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time</para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps slabtop">
170 <primary sortas="b-slabtop">slabtop</primary>
171 </indexterm>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry id="snice">
176 <term><command>snice</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given
179 criteria</para>
180 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice">
181 <primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary>
182 </indexterm>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry id="sysctl">
187 <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>Modifies kernel parameters at run time</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl">
191 <primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 <varlistentry id="tload">
197 <term><command>tload</command></term>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>Prints a graph of the current system load average</para>
200 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload">
201 <primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary>
202 </indexterm>
203 </listitem>
204 </varlistentry>
205
206 <varlistentry id="top">
207 <term><command>top</command></term>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>Displays a list of the most CPU intensive processes; it
210 provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time</para>
211 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top">
212 <primary sortas="b-top">top</primary>
213 </indexterm>
214 </listitem>
215 </varlistentry>
216
217 <varlistentry id="uptime">
218 <term><command>uptime</command></term>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>Reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
221 logged on, and the system load averages</para>
222 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime">
223 <primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary>
224 </indexterm>
225 </listitem>
226 </varlistentry>
227
228 <varlistentry id="vmstat">
229 <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>Reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about
232 processes, memory, paging, block Input/Output (IO), traps, and CPU
233 activity</para>
234 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat">
235 <primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
239
240 <varlistentry id="w">
241 <term><command>w</command></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>Shows which users are currently logged on, where, and since
244 when</para>
245 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w">
246 <primary sortas="b-w">w</primary>
247 </indexterm>
248 </listitem>
249 </varlistentry>
250
251 <varlistentry id="watch">
252 <term><command>watch</command></term>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>Runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first
255 screen-full of its output; this allows a user to watch the output
256 change over time</para>
257 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch">
258 <primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary>
259 </indexterm>
260 </listitem>
261 </varlistentry>
262
263 <varlistentry id="libproc">
264 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc</filename></term>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
267 package</para>
268 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc">
269 <primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary>
270 </indexterm>
271 </listitem>
272 </varlistentry>
273
274 </variablelist>
275
276 </sect2>
277
278</sect1>
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