A.44. Psmisc

A.44.1. Official Download Location

Psmisc (21.3):
http://download.sourceforge.net/psmisc/
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/psmisc/

A.44.2. Contents of Psmisc

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

Installed programs: fuser, killall and pstree

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A.44.4. Short descriptions

fuser reports the PIDs of processes that use the given files or filesystems.

killall kills processes by name. It sends a signal to all processes running any of the given commands.

pidof reports the PIDs of the given programs. (Not this pidof program is used, however, but the one from Sysvinit.)

pstree displays running processes as a tree.

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A.44.6. Psmisc Installation Dependencies

Psmisc depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed.