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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-psmisc" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="psmisc.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>psmisc</productname>
+ <productnumber>&psmisc-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&psmisc-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Psmisc-&psmisc-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc">
+ <primary sortas="a-Psmisc">Psmisc</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information about
+ running processes.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&psmisc-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&psmisc-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Psmisc</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare Psmisc for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Finally, move the <command>killall</command> and <command>fuser</command>
+ programs to the location specified by the FHS:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/bin/fuser /bin
+mv -v /usr/bin/killall /bin</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-psmisc" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Psmisc</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>fuser, killall, peekfd, prtstat, pslog, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="fuser">
+ <term><command>fuser</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given
+ files or file systems</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc fuser">
+ <primary sortas="b-fuser">fuser</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="killall">
+ <term><command>killall</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes
+ running any of the given commands</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc killall">
+ <primary sortas="b-killall">killall</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="peekfd">
+ <term><command>peekfd</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Peek at file descriptors of a running process, given its
+ PID</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc peekfd">
+ <primary sortas="b-peekfd">peekfd</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="prtstat">
+ <term><command>prtstat</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Prints information about a process</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc prtstat">
+ <primary sortas="b-prtstat">prtstat</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="pslog">
+ <term><command>pslog</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Reports current logs path of a process</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pslog">
+ <primary sortas="b-pslog">pslog</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="pstree">
+ <term><command>pstree</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Displays running processes as a tree</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree">
+ <primary sortas="b-pstree">pstree</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="pstree.x11">
+ <term><command>pstree.x11</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Same as <command>pstree</command>, except that it waits for
+ confirmation before exiting</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-psmisc pstree.x11">
+ <primary sortas="b-pstree.x11">pstree.x11</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>