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PSmisc - Small utilities that use the /proc filesystem

 Introduction
 Other Pages
 The Utilities
 License

Introduction
This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that use
the proc filesystem. We're not about changing the world, but providing the
system administrator with some help in common tasks.

Other pages
You will find the Sourceforge Project Page of interest to get project status.

The Utilities
The package contains the following programs:

fuser - identifies what proccesses are using files.
killall - kills a process by its name, similar to a pkill found in some other Unices.
pstree - Shows currently running processes in a tree format.
pidof - Finds proccess id of running programs, similar to pgrep found in some other Unices.

License

Up to version 19, psmisc was licensed using a license similar to BSD-style.
From version 20 onwards (which is not currently released) psmisc will
be licesned under the GNU GPL. My thanks to Werner for graciously allowing
this change.





 
 Copyright © 2000 Craig Small <csmall@small.dropbear.id.au>
 Last changed: Fri, 17 May 2002.