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| author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-24 22:29:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-09-24 22:29:16 +0000 |
| commit | 978d0bffc413b67ead9db2d2816b916cf3d502ca (patch) | |
| tree | 785d8d08754099e55a26599f8d5ccce81b456cb4 /appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml | |
| parent | aa497295b352d45ebe2e9d1eaa4a46c49e2cf521 (diff) | |
Changing the style of the command descriptions in appendix A.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2879 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml index 6f093c6fa..7b4c8e587 100644 --- a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml @@ -6,19 +6,16 @@ <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title> -<para>Note that in LFS we don't install the pidof link by default -because we use pidof from sysvinit instead.</para> +<para><command>fuser</command> reports the PIDs of processes that use +the given files or filesystems.</para> -<sect4><title>fuser</title> -<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified -files or file systems.</para></sect4> +<para><command>killall</command> kills processes by name. It sends a signal +to all processes running any of the given commands.</para> -<sect4><title>killall</title> -<para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified -commands.</para></sect4> +<para><command>pidof</command> reports the PIDs of the given programs. +(Not this pidof program is used, however, but the one from Sysvinit.)</para> -<sect4><title>pstree</title> -<para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para></sect4> +<para><command>pstree</command> displays running processes as a tree.</para> </sect3> |