Psmisc

Official Download Location

Psmisc (20.2):
http://download.sourceforge.net/psmisc/
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/psmisc/

Contents of psmisc-20.2

Program Files

fuser, killall, pidof (link to killall) and pstree

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

Descriptions

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.

pidof

Pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints those id's on standard output.

pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.

Dependencies

Psmisc-20.1 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: as, ld
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, ls, mv, rm
gcc: cc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, expr, sleep, uname
textutils: cat, tr