source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/psmisc.xml@ 83baa46

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/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="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix="" --host=${CLFS_TARGET}</userinput></screen>
31
32 <variablelist os="c">
33 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
34
35 <varlistentry>
36 <term><parameter>--exec-prefix=""</parameter></term>
37 <listitem>
38 <para>This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into
39 <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> instead of
40 <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. This is the
41 correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc
42 binaries are used by the LFS-Bootscripts package.</para>
43 </listitem>
44 </varlistentry>
45 </variablelist>
46
47 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
48
49<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
50
51 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
52
53<screen os="g"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
54
55 <para os="h">There is no reason for the <command>pstree</command> and
56 <command>pstree.x11</command> programs to reside in <filename
57 class="directory">/bin</filename>. Therefore, move them to <filename
58 class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>:</para>
59
60<screen os="i"><userinput>mv -v ${CLFS}/bin/pstree* ${CLFS}/usr/bin</userinput></screen>
61
62 <para os="j">By default, Psmisc's <command>pidof</command> program is not installed.
63 This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit
64 package, which provides a better <command>pidof</command> program. If
65 Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation
66 of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:</para>
67
68<screen os="k" role="nodump"><userinput>ln -sv killall ${CLFS}/bin/pidof</userinput></screen>
69
70 </sect2>
71
72 <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
73 <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>
74
75 <segmentedlist>
76 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
77
78 <seglistitem>
79 <seg>fuser, killall, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)</seg>
80 </seglistitem>
81 </segmentedlist>
82
83 <variablelist>
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
85 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
86 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
87
88 <varlistentry id="fuser">
89 <term><command>fuser</command></term>
90 <listitem>
91 <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
92 files or file systems</para>
93 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
94 <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
95 </indexterm>
96 </listitem>
97 </varlistentry>
98
99 <varlistentry id="killall">
100 <term><command>killall</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
103 running any of the given commands</para>
104 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
105 <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
106 </indexterm>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109
110 <varlistentry id="oldfuser">
111 <term><command>oldfuser</command></term>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
114 files or file systems</para>
115 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc oldfuser">
116 <primary sortas="b-oldfuser">oldfuser</primary>
117 </indexterm>
118 </listitem>
119 </varlistentry>
120
121 <varlistentry id="pstree">
122 <term><command>pstree</command></term>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
125 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
126 <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
127 </indexterm>
128 </listitem>
129 </varlistentry>
130
131 <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
132 <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
135 confirmation before exiting</para>
136 <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
137 <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
138 </indexterm>
139 </listitem>
140 </varlistentry>
141
142 </variablelist>
143
144 </sect2>
145
146</sect1>
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