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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml4
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diff --git a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
index 090face99..303fa7cfb 100644
--- a/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
+++ b/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
-<para>The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall and pstree programs.</para>
+<para>The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall, pidof and pstree
+programs.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -21,6 +22,13 @@ commands.</para>
</sect3>
+<sect3><title>pidof</title>
+
+<para>Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
+prints those id's on standard output.</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
<sect3><title>pstree</title>
<para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para>
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 263b108ac..3f12296f0 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Appendix A - Psmisc: This
+package provides a pidof as well, added explanation of
+it.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed, Vim,
Shadow: Added missing &amp;&amp; after the sed and echo
commands.</para></listitem>