Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:48:33 +0545 From: neeraj shrestha <neeraj@wlink.com.np> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procps in bsd Message-ID: <1108188213.32115.9.camel@neeraj> In-Reply-To: <200502121606.50457.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0502110850040.32296-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <200502121531.30652.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1108186338.32115.2.camel@neeraj> <200502121606.50457.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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thanks daniel for your solution. What exactly does the linux watch command do? $ watch -n1 'some command ' will run the command every 1 sec and show the output cont. on terminal. so it is useful to monitor the size of log files and disk space usage. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 11:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:02, neeraj shrestha wrote: > > bsd "watch" doesnot allow me to continuously monitor a process or > > command!! and also "top" doesnot shows the total physical memory that my > > No need to use so many exclamation marks.. > > What exactly does the linux watch command do? > > > system has? > > Well, I guess you could add up the fields ;) > sysctl hw.physmem will show you how much physical memory the machine has. > > > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 10:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:25, neeraj shrestha wrote: > > > > i need "watch" and "free" commmand at least!! > > > > is there bsd equivalent of these linux utilities? > > > > > > Well there is a FreeBSD command called watch which snoops on TTYs.. > > > You can use top to find out how much RAM is free. > > > > > > > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 22:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, neeraj shrestha wrote: > > > > > > i could not find the "procps" port or package for freebsd?? > > > > > > if there is available let me know!! > > > > > > > > > > procps is the Linux /proc file system utilities. My package > > > > > description is: The Linux /proc file system utilities are tools for > > > > > reporting about and modifying the state of the system, including > > > > > memory, processes, sending signals to processes, etc. The commands > > > > > include free, oldps, pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, > > > > > top, vmstat, w and watch. (kill is not installed; it is available in > > > > > the sysutils/util-linux package.) This version of procps is > > > > > maintained by Albert Cahalan, based on original code from Michael K. > > > > > Johnson. > > > > > > > > > > I packaged it for Pkgsrc but ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM= Linux-*-* because > > > > > this uses Linux include/asm/page.h. I never wasted time trying to > > > > > port to and *BSD, because I already have the tools I needed. > > > > > > > > > > Is there some reason you need procps on FreeBSD? What tool(s) do you > > > > > need? > > > > > > > > > > If you need the Linux procps, then install your Linux compat > > > > > packages. It is included. > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy C. Reed > > > > > > > > > > BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links > > > > > http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > > > "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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