source: final-system/common/psmisc.xml @ e6423a01

Last change on this file since e6423a01 was e6423a01, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

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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    <segmentedlist>
24      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26      <seglistitem>
27        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc,
28        Grep, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg>
29      </seglistitem>
30    </segmentedlist>
31
32  </sect2>
33
34  <sect2 role="installation">
35    <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>
36
37    <para os="a">Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
38
39<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=""</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 LFS-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 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 /bin/pstree* /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"><userinput>ln -s killall /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="pstree">
120        <term><command>pstree</command></term>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
123          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
124            <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
125          </indexterm>
126        </listitem>
127      </varlistentry>
128
129      <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
130        <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
131        <listitem>
132          <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
133          confirmation before exiting</para>
134          <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
135            <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
136          </indexterm>
137        </listitem>
138      </varlistentry>
139
140    </variablelist>
141
142  </sect2>
143
144</sect1>
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