source: BOOK/final-system/common/procps-ng.xml@ 03e6a40

Last change on this file since 03e6a40 was 8699cff, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 12 years ago

Add note to procps and procps 32 bit when using the boot method to set the hostname or else a couple of tests will fail.
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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-procps-ng" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="procps-ng.html"?>
10
11 <title>Procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng">
14 <primary sortas="a-Procps-ng">Procps-ng</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Procps-ng package contains programs for monitoring
21 processes.</para>
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Procps-ng</title>
27
28 <para os="a">Prepare procps-ng for compilation:</para>
29
30<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix= \
31 --libdir=/usr/lib --docdir=/usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version; \
32 --disable-kill</userinput></screen>
33
34 <variablelist os="c">
35 <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
36 <varlistentry>
37 <term><parameter>--disable-kill</parameter></term>
38 <listitem>
39 <para>This switch disables building the kill command that
40 was installed in the util-linux package.</para>
41 </listitem>
42 </varlistentry>
43 </variablelist>
44
45 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
46
47<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
48
49 <note os="note1">
50 <para>When using the boot method, two tests will fail if the hostname is
51 not set:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput remap="test">hostname clfs</userinput></screen>
54 </note>
55
56 <para os="f">Remove the test which fails when scripting does not use a tty
57 device. Run the following commands:</para>
58
59<screen os="g"><userinput remap="test">sed -i -r 's|(pmap_initname)\\\$|\1|' testsuite/pmap.test/pmap.exp
60make check</userinput></screen>
61
62 <para os="h">Install the package:</para>
63
64<screen os="i"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
65
66 <para os="j">Move essential files to a location that can be found if <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> is not mounted.</para>
67
68<screen os="k"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/pidof /bin
69mv -v /usr/lib/libprocps.so.* /lib
70ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libprocps.so) /usr/lib/libprocps.so</userinput></screen>
71
72 </sect2>
73
74 <sect2 id="contents-procps-ng" role="content">
75 <title>Contents of Procps-ng</title>
76
77 <segmentedlist>
78 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
79 <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
80 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
81
82 <seglistitem>
83 <seg>free, pgrep, pidof, pkill, pmap, ps, pwdx, slabtop, sysctl, tload,
84 top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch</seg>
85 <seg>libprocps.{a,so}</seg>
86 <seg>/usr/include/proc, /usr/share/doc/procps-ng-&procps-ng-version;</seg>
87 </seglistitem>
88 </segmentedlist>
89
90 <variablelist>
91 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
92 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
93 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
94
95 <varlistentry id="free">
96 <term><command>free</command></term>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>Reports the amount of free and used memory (both physical and
99 swap memory) in the system</para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng free">
101 <primary sortas="b-free">free</primary>
102 </indexterm>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry id="pgrep">
107 <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng pgrep">
111 <primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="pidof">
117 <term><command>pidof</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Looks up processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
120 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng pidof">
121 <primary sortas="b-pidof">pidof</primary>
122 </indexterm>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125
126 <varlistentry id="pkill">
127 <term><command>pkill</command></term>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>Signals processes based on their name and other attributes</para>
130 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng pkill">
131 <primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary>
132 </indexterm>
133 </listitem>
134 </varlistentry>
135
136 <varlistentry id="pmap">
137 <term><command>pmap</command></term>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>Reports the memory map of the given process</para>
140 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng pmap">
141 <primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary>
142 </indexterm>
143 </listitem>
144 </varlistentry>
145
146 <varlistentry id="ps">
147 <term><command>ps</command></term>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>Lists the current running processes</para>
150 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng ps">
151 <primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary>
152 </indexterm>
153 </listitem>
154 </varlistentry>
155
156 <varlistentry id="pwdx">
157 <term><command>pwdx</command></term>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>Reports the current working directory of a process</para>
160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng pwdx">
161 <primary sortas="b-pwdx">pwdx</primary>
162 </indexterm>
163 </listitem>
164 </varlistentry>
165
166 <varlistentry id="slabtop">
167 <term><command>slabtop</command></term>
168 <listitem>
169 <para>Displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time</para>
170 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng slabtop">
171 <primary sortas="b-slabtop">slabtop</primary>
172 </indexterm>
173 </listitem>
174 </varlistentry>
175
176
177 <varlistentry id="sysctl">
178 <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>Modifies kernel parameters at run time</para>
181 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng sysctl">
182 <primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary>
183 </indexterm>
184 </listitem>
185 </varlistentry>
186
187 <varlistentry id="tload">
188 <term><command>tload</command></term>
189 <listitem>
190 <para>Prints a graph of the current system load average</para>
191 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng tload">
192 <primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary>
193 </indexterm>
194 </listitem>
195 </varlistentry>
196
197 <varlistentry id="top">
198 <term><command>top</command></term>
199 <listitem>
200 <para>Displays a list of the most CPU intensive processes; it
201 provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real time</para>
202 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng top">
203 <primary sortas="b-top">top</primary>
204 </indexterm>
205 </listitem>
206 </varlistentry>
207
208 <varlistentry id="uptime">
209 <term><command>uptime</command></term>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>Reports how long the system has been running, how many users are
212 logged on, and the system load averages</para>
213 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng uptime">
214 <primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary>
215 </indexterm>
216 </listitem>
217 </varlistentry>
218
219 <varlistentry id="vmstat">
220 <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>Reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about
223 processes, memory, paging, block Input/Output (IO), traps, and CPU
224 activity</para>
225 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng vmstat">
226 <primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
230
231 <varlistentry id="w">
232 <term><command>w</command></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>Shows which users are currently logged on, where, and since
235 when</para>
236 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng w">
237 <primary sortas="b-w">w</primary>
238 </indexterm>
239 </listitem>
240 </varlistentry>
241
242 <varlistentry id="watch">
243 <term><command>watch</command></term>
244 <listitem>
245 <para>Runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first
246 screen-full of its output; this allows a user to watch the output
247 change over time</para>
248 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng watch">
249 <primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary>
250 </indexterm>
251 </listitem>
252 </varlistentry>
253
254 <varlistentry id="libprocps">
255 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libprocps</filename></term>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>Contains the functions used by most programs in this
258 package</para>
259 <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps-ng libprocps">
260 <primary sortas="c-libprocps">libprocps</primary>
261 </indexterm>
262 </listitem>
263 </varlistentry>
264
265 </variablelist>
266
267 </sect2>
268
269</sect1>
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