6.43. Installing Psmisc

6.43.1. Installation of Psmisc

Install Psmisc by running the following commands:


./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

6.43.2. Contents

The Psmisc package contains the fuser, killall and pstree programs.

6.43.3. Description

6.43.3.1. fuser

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

6.43.3.2. killall

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

6.43.3.3. pstree

pstree shows running processes as a tree.