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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-psmisc" role="wrap"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="psmisc.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc"> |
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Psmisc">Psmisc</primary> |
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| 15 | </indexterm> |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 18 | <title/> |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information |
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| 21 | about running processes.</para> |
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| 22 | |
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| 23 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 24 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle> |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | <seglistitem> |
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| 27 | <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, |
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| 28 | Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg> |
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| 29 | </seglistitem> |
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| 30 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | </sect2> |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 35 | <title>Installation of Psmisc</title> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para> |
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| 38 | |
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[e6423a01] | 39 | <screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</userinput></screen> |
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[bf8c11f] | 40 | |
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[e6423a01] | 41 | <variablelist os="c"> |
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[bf8c11f] | 42 | <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | <varlistentry> |
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| 45 | <term><parameter>--exec-prefix=""</parameter></term> |
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| 46 | <listitem> |
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| 47 | <para>This ensures that the Psmisc binaries will install into |
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| 48 | <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> instead of |
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| 49 | <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. This is the |
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| 50 | correct location according to the FHS, because some of the Psmisc |
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| 51 | binaries are used by the LFS-Bootscripts package.</para> |
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| 52 | </listitem> |
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| 53 | </varlistentry> |
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| 54 | </variablelist> |
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| 55 | |
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[e6423a01] | 56 | <para os="d">Compile the package:</para> |
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[bf8c11f] | 57 | |
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[e6423a01] | 58 | <screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> |
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[bf8c11f] | 59 | |
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[e6423a01] | 60 | <para os="f">Install the package:</para> |
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[bf8c11f] | 61 | |
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[e6423a01] | 62 | <screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> |
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[bf8c11f] | 63 | |
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[e6423a01] | 64 | <para os="h">There is no reason for the <command>pstree</command> and |
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[bf8c11f] | 65 | <command>pstree.x11</command> programs to reside in <filename |
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| 66 | class="directory">/bin</filename>. Therefore, move them to <filename |
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| 67 | class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>:</para> |
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| 68 | |
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[e6423a01] | 69 | <screen os="i"><userinput>mv /bin/pstree* /usr/bin</userinput></screen> |
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[bf8c11f] | 70 | |
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[e6423a01] | 71 | <para os="j">By default, Psmisc's <command>pidof</command> program is not installed. |
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[bf8c11f] | 72 | This usually is not a problem because it is installed later in the Sysvinit |
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| 73 | package, which provides a better <command>pidof</command> program. If |
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| 74 | Sysvinit will not be used for a particular system, complete the installation |
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| 75 | of Psmisc by creating the following symlink:</para> |
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| 76 | |
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[e6423a01] | 77 | <screen os="k"><userinput>ln -s killall /bin/pidof</userinput></screen> |
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[bf8c11f] | 78 | |
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| 79 | </sect2> |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content"> |
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| 82 | <title>Contents of Psmisc</title> |
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| 83 | |
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| 84 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 85 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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| 86 | |
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| 87 | <seglistitem> |
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| 88 | <seg>fuser, killall, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)</seg> |
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| 89 | </seglistitem> |
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| 90 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | <variablelist> |
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| 93 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 94 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 95 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | <varlistentry id="fuser"> |
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| 98 | <term><command>fuser</command></term> |
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| 99 | <listitem> |
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| 100 | <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given |
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| 101 | files or file systems</para> |
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| 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser"> |
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| 103 | <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary> |
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| 104 | </indexterm> |
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| 105 | </listitem> |
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| 106 | </varlistentry> |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | <varlistentry id="killall"> |
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| 109 | <term><command>killall</command></term> |
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| 110 | <listitem> |
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| 111 | <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes |
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| 112 | running any of the given commands</para> |
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| 113 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall"> |
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| 114 | <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary> |
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| 115 | </indexterm> |
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| 116 | </listitem> |
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| 117 | </varlistentry> |
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| 118 | |
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| 119 | <varlistentry id="pstree"> |
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| 120 | <term><command>pstree</command></term> |
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| 121 | <listitem> |
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| 122 | <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para> |
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| 123 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree"> |
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| 124 | <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary> |
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| 125 | </indexterm> |
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| 126 | </listitem> |
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| 127 | </varlistentry> |
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| 128 | |
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| 129 | <varlistentry id="pstree.x11"> |
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| 130 | <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term> |
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| 131 | <listitem> |
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| 132 | <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for |
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| 133 | confirmation before exiting</para> |
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| 134 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11"> |
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| 135 | <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary> |
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| 136 | </indexterm> |
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| 137 | </listitem> |
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| 138 | </varlistentry> |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | </variablelist> |
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| 141 | |
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| 142 | </sect2> |
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| 143 | |
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| 144 | </sect1> |
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