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 Psmisc-&psmisc-version; Psmisc <para>The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information about running processes.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&psmisc-ch6-sbu;</seg> <seg>&psmisc-ch6-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Psmisc Prepare Psmisc for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make This package does not come with a test suite. Install the package: make install Finally, move the killall and fuser programs to the location specified by the FHS: mv -v /usr/bin/fuser /bin mv -v /usr/bin/killall /bin Contents of Psmisc Installed programs fuser, killall, peekfd, prtstat, pslog, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree) Short Descriptions fuser Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given files or file systems fuser killall Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes running any of the given commands killall peekfd Peek at file descriptors of a running process, given its PID peekfd prtstat Prints information about a process prtstat pslog Reports current logs path of a process pslog pstree Displays running processes as a tree pstree pstree.x11 Same as pstree, except that it waits for confirmation before exiting pstree.x11