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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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| 39 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 40 |
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[5888299] | 41 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 42 | <sect2 id="contents-procps" role="content"><title>Contents of Procps</title>
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[673b0d8] | 43 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 44 | <segmentedlist>
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| 45 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 46 | <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
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| 47 | <seglistitem><seg>free, kill, pgrep, pkill,
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| 48 | pmap, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w and watch</seg>
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| 49 | <seg>libproc.so</seg></seglistitem>
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| 50 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 51 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 52 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[673b0d8] | 53 |
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[b8a819f] | 54 | <varlistentry id="free">
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| 55 | <term><command>free</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 56 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 57 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps free"><primary sortas="b-free">free</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 58 | <para>reports the amount of free and used memory
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[673b0d8] | 59 | in the system, both physical and swap memory.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 62 |
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[b8a819f] | 63 | <varlistentry id="kill">
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| 64 | <term><command>kill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 65 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 66 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps kill"><primary sortas="b-kill">kill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 67 | <para>is used to send signals to processes.</para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 70 |
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[b8a819f] | 71 | <varlistentry id="pgrep">
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| 72 | <term><command>pgrep</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 73 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 74 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pgrep"><primary sortas="b-pgrep">pgrep</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 75 | <para>looks up processes based on their name and other attributes.</para>
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| 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 78 |
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[b8a819f] | 79 | <varlistentry id="pkill">
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| 80 | <term><command>pkill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 81 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 82 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pkill"><primary sortas="b-pkill">pkill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 83 | <para>signals processes based on their name and other attributes.</para>
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| 84 | </listitem>
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| 85 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 86 |
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[b8a819f] | 87 | <varlistentry id="pmap">
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| 88 | <term><command>pmap</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 89 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 90 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps pmap"><primary sortas="b-pmap">pmap</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 91 | <para>reports the memory map of the given process.</para>
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| 92 | </listitem>
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| 93 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 94 |
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[b8a819f] | 95 | <varlistentry id="ps">
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| 96 | <term><command>ps</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 97 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 98 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps ps"><primary sortas="b-ps">ps</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 99 | <para>gives a snapshot of the current processes.</para>
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| 100 | </listitem>
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| 101 | </varlistentry>
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[73aedd1d] | 102 |
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[b8a819f] | 103 | <varlistentry id="skill">
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| 104 | <term><command>skill</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 105 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 106 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps skill"><primary sortas="b-skill">skill</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 107 | <para>sends signals to processes matching the given criteria.</para>
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| 108 | </listitem>
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| 109 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 110 |
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[b8a819f] | 111 | <varlistentry id="snice">
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| 112 | <term><command>snice</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 113 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 114 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps snice"><primary sortas="b-snice">snice</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 115 | <para>changes the scheduling priority of processes matching the given criteria.</para>
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| 116 | </listitem>
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| 117 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 118 |
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[b8a819f] | 119 | <varlistentry id="sysctl">
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| 120 | <term><command>sysctl</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 121 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 122 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps sysctl"><primary sortas="b-sysctl">sysctl</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 123 | <para>modifies kernel parameters at run time.</para>
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| 124 | </listitem>
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| 125 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 126 |
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[b8a819f] | 127 | <varlistentry id="tload">
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| 128 | <term><command>tload</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 129 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 130 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps tload"><primary sortas="b-tload">tload</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 131 | <para>prints a graph of the current system load average.</para>
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| 132 | </listitem>
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| 133 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 134 |
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[b8a819f] | 135 | <varlistentry id="top">
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| 136 | <term><command>top</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 137 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps top"><primary sortas="b-top">top</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 139 | <para>displays the top CPU processes. It provides
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[673b0d8] | 140 | an ongoing look at processor activity in real time.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 141 | </listitem>
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| 142 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 143 |
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[b8a819f] | 144 | <varlistentry id="uptime">
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| 145 | <term><command>uptime</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 146 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 147 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps uptime"><primary sortas="b-uptime">uptime</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 148 | <para>reports how long the system has been
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[673b0d8] | 149 | running, how many users are logged on, and the system load averages.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 150 | </listitem>
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| 151 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 152 |
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[b8a819f] | 153 | <varlistentry id="vmstat">
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| 154 | <term><command>vmstat</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 155 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 156 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps vmstat"><primary sortas="b-vmstat">vmstat</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 157 | <para>reports virtual memory statistics, giving information about processes,
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| 158 | memory, paging, block IO, traps, and CPU activity.</para>
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| 159 | </listitem>
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| 160 | </varlistentry>
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| 161 |
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[b8a819f] | 162 | <varlistentry id="w">
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| 163 | <term><command>w</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 164 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 165 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps w"><primary sortas="b-w">w</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 166 | <para>shows which users are currently logged on, where and since when.</para>
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| 167 | </listitem>
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| 168 | </varlistentry>
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[673b0d8] | 169 |
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[b8a819f] | 170 | <varlistentry id="watch">
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| 171 | <term><command>watch</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 172 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 173 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps watch"><primary sortas="b-watch">watch</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 174 | <para>runs a given command repeatedly, displaying the first screen-full of its
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| 175 | output. This allows you to watch the output change over time.</para>
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| 176 | </listitem>
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| 177 | </varlistentry>
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| 178 |
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[b8a819f] | 179 | <varlistentry id="libproc">
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[8ad7980] | 180 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libproc</filename></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 181 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 182 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-procps libproc"><primary sortas="c-libproc">libproc</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 183 | <para>contains the functions used by most programs in this package.</para>
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| 184 | </listitem>
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| 185 | </varlistentry>
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| 186 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 187 |
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| 188 | </sect2>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | </sect1>
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