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# Psmisc

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Psmisc-21.3 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Psmisc (21.3):
http://download.sourceforge.net/psmisc/
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/psmisc/

## Contents of Psmisc

(Last checked against version 21.)

The Psmisc package contains three programs which help manage the `/proc` directory.

Psmisc installs the following:

### Program Files

fuser, killall and pstree

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## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 21.)

### Program file descriptions

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

#### fuser

fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified files or file systems.

#### killall

killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands.

#### pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.

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## Psmisc Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 20.2.)

Bash: sh
Bison: bison
Binutils: as, ld
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, echo, expr, hostname, install,
ls, mkdir, mv, rm, sleep, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Grep: egrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo

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