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psmisc

This package contains four little utilities that use the proc FS:

  fuser     identifies processes using files or sockets (similar to Sun's
            or SGI's fuser)
  killall   kills processes by name, e.g. killall -HUP named
  pidof     like killall, buts lists PIDs instead of killing processes

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree

They should work with most recent kernels. Man pages are included.

• Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>

src/loop.h was stolen from util-linux package which in turn stole it from the Linux kernel.

Translations

My thanks for the various translators who have cheerfully given me the po files to make psmisc speak different languages. If your language is not supported then let me know, all it takes is translating one file in a certain manner.

Icons

The pstree icons were drawn by Tatlin at Coresis who has given permission for them to be used for psmisc.

• Craig