From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 14:40:13 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 8E95A16A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:40:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from loveturtle.net (loveturtle.net [216.89.229.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2175343D54 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:40:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from loveturtle@loveturtle.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by loveturtle.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6351740A6 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:40:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <420E154C.8010103@loveturtle.net> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:40:12 -0500 From: Dillon User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <200502121606.50457.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1108188213.32115.9.camel@neeraj> <200502121704.52637.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1108191196.2323.1.camel@neeraj> In-Reply-To: <1108191196.2323.1.camel@neeraj> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 14:40:13 -0000 /usr/ports/sysutils/cmdwatch is the equivilent of linux's "watch" neeraj shrestha wrote: >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. 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" >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > >_______________________________________________ >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" > >