From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 06:52:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A4F16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:52:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.wlink.com.np (smtp4.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC5643D1F for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:52:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neeraj@wlink.com.np) Received: (qmail 85626 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2005 06:52:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av-scanner-02.wlink.com.np) (202.79.32.91) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 06:52:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 16665 invoked by uid 1009); 12 Feb 2005 01:07:02 -0000 Received: from neeraj@wlink.com.np by av-scanner-02.wlink.com.np by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.20 ( Clear:RC:1(202.79.32.78):. Processed in 0.012108 secs); 12 Feb 2005 01:07:02 -0000 Received: from smtp3.wlink.com.np (202.79.32.78) by av-scanner-02.wlink.com.np with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 01:07:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 6707 invoked by uid 514); 12 Feb 2005 06:52:03 -0000 Received: from [202.79.36.170] (HELO [202.79.36.170]) by smtp3.wlink.com.np (qmail-smtpd) with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 06:52:02 -0000 (Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:37:02 +0545) From: neeraj shrestha To: Daniel O'Connor In-Reply-To: <200502121704.52637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200502121606.50457.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1108188213.32115.9.camel@neeraj> <200502121704.52637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1108191196.2323.1.camel@neeraj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:16 +0545 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Check-By: smtp3.wlink.com.np Spam: No ; -4.9 / 5.0 X-Spam-Status-WL: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procps in bsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:52:09 -0000 ok so the conclusion is there is no such utility in bsd. ill write the script for that. any way thanks daniel. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:19, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:33, neeraj shrestha wrote: > > $ 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. > > Ahh.. > You could write a shellscript version of that in short order I'd imagine :) > > > 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. 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