psmisc

This PSmisc package is a set of some small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem. See documentation

Maintainers

The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/psmisc as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/psmisc)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/psmisc)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/psmisc --binlink

will add the following binaries to the PATH:

/bin/fuser
/bin/killall
/bin/peekfd
/bin/prtstat
/bin/pslog
/bin/pstree
/bin/pstree.x11

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/psmisc --binlink
» Installing core/psmisc
☁ Determining latest version of core/psmisc in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121) than remote version (core/psmisc/23.2/20200305231328)
→ Using core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121
★ Install of core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking prtstat from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked prtstat from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/prtstat
» Binlinking pstree from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked pstree from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/pstree
» Binlinking pslog from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked pslog from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/pslog
» Binlinking killall from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked killall from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/killall
» Binlinking fuser from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked fuser from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/fuser
» Binlinking peekfd from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked peekfd from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/peekfd
» Binlinking pstree.x11 from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 into /bin
★ Binlinked pstree.x11 from core/psmisc/23.2/20200616125121 to /bin/pstree.x11

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/pstree --help or pstree --help

$ pstree --help 
pstree: unrecognized option '--help'
Usage: pstree [-acglpsStu] [ -h | -H PID ] [ -n | -N type ]
              [ -A | -G | -U ] [ PID | USER ]
       pstree -V
Display a tree of processes.

  -a, --arguments     show command line arguments
  -A, --ascii         use ASCII line drawing characters
  -c, --compact       don't compact identical subtrees
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