Installing Psmisc

Installing Psmisc

Edit the Makefile file and edit the CFLAGS variable if you want to add compiler optimizations to this package.

Install Psmisc by running the following commands:



root:psmisc# sed s/-ltermcap/-lncurses/ Makefile >Makefile2
root:psmisc# mv Makefile2 Makefile
root:psmisc# make
root:psmisc# make install

Contents

The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall and pstree programs.

Description

fuser

fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file systems.

killall

killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands.

pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.