Installing Procinfo-18

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  170 KB

Installation of Procinfo

Install Procinfo by running the following commands:

make LDLIBS=-lncurses &&
make install

Command explanations

make LDLIBS=-lncurses : This will use -lncurses instead of -ltermcap when building procinfo. This is done because libtermcap is declared obsolete in favor of libncurses.

Contents of procinfo-18

Program Files

lsdev, procinfo and socklist

Descriptions

lsdev

lsdev gathers information about your computer's installed hardware from the interrupts, ioports and dma files in the /proc directory, thus giving you a quick overview of which hardware uses what I/O addresses and what IRQ and DMA channels.

procinfo

procinfo gathers some system data from the /proc directory and prints it nicely formatted on the standard output device.

socklist

is a Perl script that gives you a list of all open sockets, enumerating types, port, inode, uid, pid, fd and the program to which it belongs.

Dependencies

Procinfo-18 needs the following to be installed:


binutils: as, ld
fileutils: install, mkdir
make: make
sed: sed