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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-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="a1">When cross-compiling the <literal>AC_FUNC_MALLOC</literal>
29    macro will assume that the malloc provided is not GNU Compatible. The
30    following tells it that we do:</para>
31
32<screen os="a2"><userinput>echo "ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes" > config.cache
33echo "ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes" >> config.cache</userinput></screen>
34
35    <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
36
37<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
38    --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix="" \
39    --cache-file=config.cache</userinput></screen>
40
41    <variablelist os="c">
42      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
43
44      <varlistentry>
45        <term><parameter>--exec-prefix=""</parameter></term>
46        <listitem>
47          <para>This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into
48          <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> instead of
49          <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. This is the
50          correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc
51          binaries are used by the CLFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
52        </listitem>
53      </varlistentry>
54    </variablelist>
55
56    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
57
58<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
59
60    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
61
62<screen os="g"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
63
64    <para os="h">There is no reason for the <command>pstree</command> and
65    <command>pstree.x11</command> programs to reside in <filename
66    class="directory">/bin</filename>. Therefore, move them to <filename
67    class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>:</para>
68
69<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v ${CLFS}/bin/pstree* ${CLFS}/usr/bin</userinput></screen>
70
71    <para os="j">By default, Psmisc's <command>pidof</command> program is not installed.
72    This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit
73    package, which provides a better <command>pidof</command> program. If
74    Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation
75    of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:</para>
76
77<screen os="k" role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sfv killall ${CLFS}/bin/pidof</userinput></screen>
78
79  </sect2>
80
81  <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
82    <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>
83
84    <segmentedlist>
85      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
86
87      <seglistitem>
88        <seg>fuser, killall, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)</seg>
89      </seglistitem>
90    </segmentedlist>
91
92    <variablelist>
93      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
94      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
95      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
96
97      <varlistentry id="fuser">
98        <term><command>fuser</command></term>
99        <listitem>
100          <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
101          files or file systems</para>
102          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
103            <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
104          </indexterm>
105        </listitem>
106      </varlistentry>
107
108      <varlistentry id="killall">
109        <term><command>killall</command></term>
110        <listitem>
111          <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
112          running any of the given commands</para>
113          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
114            <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
115          </indexterm>
116        </listitem>
117      </varlistentry>
118
119      <varlistentry id="oldfuser">
120        <term><command>oldfuser</command></term>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
123          files or file systems</para>
124          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc oldfuser">
125            <primary sortas="b-oldfuser">oldfuser</primary>
126          </indexterm>
127        </listitem>
128      </varlistentry>
129
130      <varlistentry id="pstree">
131        <term><command>pstree</command></term>
132        <listitem>
133          <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
134          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
135            <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
136          </indexterm>
137        </listitem>
138      </varlistentry>
139
140      <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
141        <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
142        <listitem>
143          <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
144          confirmation before exiting</para>
145          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
146            <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
147          </indexterm>
148        </listitem>
149      </varlistentry>
150
151    </variablelist>
152
153  </sect2>
154
155</sect1>
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