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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall, pidof and pstree 
programs.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>fuser</title>
<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file 
systems.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>killall</title>
<para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified 
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></sect3>

</sect2>