From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 05:30:55 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 EB2D816A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:30:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.wlink.com.np (smtp4.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36B6743D48 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:30:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from neeraj@wlink.com.np) Received: (qmail 79701 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2005 05:30:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av-scanner-02.wlink.com.np) (202.79.32.91) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 05:30:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 52509 invoked by uid 1009); 12 Feb 2005 05:30:47 -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 0.121842 secs); 12 Feb 2005 05:30:47 -0000 Received: from smtp3.wlink.com.np (202.79.32.78) by av-scanner-02.wlink.com.np with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 05:30:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 15377 invoked by uid 514); 12 Feb 2005 05:30:48 -0000 Received: from [202.79.36.170] (HELO [202.79.36.170]) by smtp3.wlink.com.np (qmail-smtpd) with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 05:30:48 -0000 (Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:15:48 +0545) From: neeraj shrestha To: Daniel O'Connor In-Reply-To: <200502121531.30652.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <1108184103.31607.2.camel@neeraj> <200502121531.30652.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1108186338.32115.2.camel@neeraj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:17:18 +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 05:30:55 -0000 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"