lfs-book/appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of Psmisc</title>

<para>Last checked against version &psmisc-contversion;.</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>fuser, killall, pidof (link to killall) and pstree</para>

<para>Note that in LFS we don't install the pidof link by default
because we use pidof from sysvinit instead.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>Descriptions</title>

<sect4><title>fuser</title>
<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified
files or file systems.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>killall</title>
<para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified 
commands.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pidof</title>
<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
programs.</para></sect4>

<sect4><title>pstree</title>
<para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para></sect4>

</sect3>

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