Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:17:18 +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: <1108186338.32115.2.camel@neeraj> In-Reply-To: <200502121531.30652.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0502110850040.32296-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <1108184103.31607.2.camel@neeraj> <200502121531.30652.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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well bsd "watch" doesnot allow me to continuously monitor a process or command!! and also "top" doesnot shows the total physical memory that my system 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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