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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[a001133] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-procps" xreflabel="Procps" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>Procps-&procps-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="procps.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps"><primary sortas="a-Procps">Procps</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The Procps package contains programs for monitoring processes.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>6.2 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 20 |
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[a001133] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>Procps installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc,
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| 24 | Make, Ncurses</seg></seglistitem>
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| 25 | </segmentedlist>
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| 26 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 29 | <title>Installation of Procps</title>
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| 30 |
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[28acf75] | 31 | <para>Compile Procps:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>Install it:</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 38 |
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[673b0d8] | 39 | <para>Remove a spurious library link:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 40 |
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| 41 | <screen><userinput>rm /lib/libproc.so</userinput></screen>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 44 |
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[5888299] | 45 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 46 | <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content"><title>Contents of Procps</title>
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[673b0d8] | 47 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 48 | <segmentedlist>
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| 49 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 50 | <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
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| 51 | <seglistitem><seg>free, kill, pgrep, pkill,
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| 52 | pmap, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch</seg>
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| 53 | <seg>libproc.so</seg></seglistitem>
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| 54 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 55 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 56 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 57 |
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[b8a819f] | 58 | <varlistentry id="free">
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| 59 | <term><command>free</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 60 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 61 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free"><primary sortas="b-free">free</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 62 | <para>reports the amount of free and used memory
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[673b0d8] | 63 | in the system, both physical and swap memory.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 66 |
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[b8a819f] | 67 | <varlistentry id="kill">
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| 68 | <term><command>kill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 69 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 70 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps kill"><primary sortas="b-kill">kill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 71 | <para>is used to send signals to processes.</para>
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| 72 | </listitem>
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| 73 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 74 |
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[b8a819f] | 75 | <varlistentry id="pgrep">
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| 76 | <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 77 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 78 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep"><primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 79 | <para>looks up processes based on their name and other attributes.</para>
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| 80 | </listitem>
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| 81 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 82 |
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[b8a819f] | 83 | <varlistentry id="pkill">
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| 84 | <term><command>pkill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 85 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 86 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill"><primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 87 | <para>signals processes based on their name and other attributes.</para>
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| 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 90 |
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[b8a819f] | 91 | <varlistentry id="pmap">
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| 92 | <term><command>pmap</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 93 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 94 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap"><primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 95 | <para>reports the memory map of the given process.</para>
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| 96 | </listitem>
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| 97 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 98 |
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[b8a819f] | 99 | <varlistentry id="ps">
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| 100 | <term><command>ps</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 101 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 102 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps"><primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 103 | <para>gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para>
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| 104 | </listitem>
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| 105 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 106 |
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[b8a819f] | 107 | <varlistentry id="skill">
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| 108 | <term><command>skill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 109 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 110 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill"><primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <para>sends signals to processes matching the given criteria.</para>
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| 112 | </listitem>
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| 113 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 114 |
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[b8a819f] | 115 | <varlistentry id="snice">
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| 116 | <term><command>snice</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 117 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 118 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice"><primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 119 | <para>changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given criteria.</para>
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| 120 | </listitem>
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| 121 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 122 |
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[b8a819f] | 123 | <varlistentry id="sysctl">
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| 124 | <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 125 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 126 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl"><primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 127 | <para>modifies kernel parameters at run time.</para>
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| 128 | </listitem>
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| 129 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 130 |
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[b8a819f] | 131 | <varlistentry id="tload">
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| 132 | <term><command>tload</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 133 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 134 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload"><primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 135 | <para>prints a graph of the current system load average.</para>
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| 136 | </listitem>
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| 137 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 138 |
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[b8a819f] | 139 | <varlistentry id="top">
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| 140 | <term><command>top</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 141 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 142 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top"><primary sortas="b-top">top</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 143 | <para>displays the top CPU processes. It provides
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[673b0d8] | 144 | an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 145 | </listitem>
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| 146 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 147 |
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[b8a819f] | 148 | <varlistentry id="uptime">
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| 149 | <term><command>uptime</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 150 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime"><primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 152 | <para>reports how long the system has been
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[673b0d8] | 153 | running, how many users are logged on, and the system load averages.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 154 | </listitem>
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| 155 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 156 |
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[b8a819f] | 157 | <varlistentry id="vmstat">
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| 158 | <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 159 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 160 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat"><primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 161 | <para>reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about processes,
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| 162 | memory, paging, block IO, traps, and CPU activity.</para>
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| 163 | </listitem>
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| 164 | </varlistentry>
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| 165 |
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[b8a819f] | 166 | <varlistentry id="w">
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| 167 | <term><command>w</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 168 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 169 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w"><primary sortas="b-w">w</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 170 | <para>shows which users are currently logged on, where and since when.</para>
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| 171 | </listitem>
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| 172 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 173 |
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[b8a819f] | 174 | <varlistentry id="watch">
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| 175 | <term><command>watch</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 176 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 177 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch"><primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 178 | <para>runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first screen-full of its
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| 179 | output. This allows you to watch the output change over time.</para>
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| 180 | </listitem>
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| 181 | </varlistentry>
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| 182 |
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[b8a819f] | 183 | <varlistentry id="libproc">
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| 184 | <term><command>libproc</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 185 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 186 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc"><primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 187 | <para>contains the functions used by most programs in this package.</para>
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| 188 | </listitem>
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| 189 | </varlistentry>
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| 190 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 191 |
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| 192 | </sect2>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | </sect1>
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