Psmisc

Official Download Location

Psmisc (21.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/psmisc/
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/psmisc/

Contents of Psmisc

Last checked against version 21.

The Psmisc package contains three programs which help manage the /proc directory.

Psmisc installs the following:

Program Files

fuser, killall and pstree

 

Descriptions

Last checked against version 21.

Program file descriptions

Note that in LFS we don't install the pidof link by default because we use pidof from sysvinit instead.

fuser

fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified files or file systems.

killall

killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands.

pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.

 

Psmisc Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 20.2.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Bison: bison
Binutils: as, ld
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Texinfo: makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr