procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values.
doesn't work I strongly encourage the developers to take advantage of the SourceForge compile farm. Log in on every machine there, doing this: 1. grab the latest release (not CVS or BK) ...
Poll: proper "O" behavior? Should the "O" option print command arguments or not? It was originally designed to match the Digital UNIX ps, which doesn't print argumen...
Re: Slackware doesn't send patches upstream. Patrick J. Volkerding runs the project. I doubt he packages procps by himself. Does he? (and everything else????) I'm looking for the person who c...
Slackware doesn't send patches upstream. I have not ever seen these patches before. How am I supposed to contact the Slackware maintainer to discuss them??? Anyway, I'll take a look at the patch...
No kidding. Drop it. Red Hat has a long history of shipping hacked up forks. Does gcc 2.96 ring a bell? How about plain old GNU sort, broken to the extent that a simple 'sort -n' would randomize...