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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 21.3.)

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

Installed programs: fuser, killall and pstree

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## Short descriptions

fuser reports the PIDs of processes that use the given files or filesystems.

killall kills processes by name. It sends a signal to all processes running any of the given commands.

pidof reports the PIDs of the given programs. (Not this pidof program is used, however, but the one from Sysvinit.)

pstree displays 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, cpp, gcc
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Grep: egrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo

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