Information about the package, psmisc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The psmisc package is designed for, Utilities for managing processes on your system.
Package Name:
psmisc
Summary:
Utilities for managing processes on your system
Description:
The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system: pstree, killall and fuser. The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system. The killall command sends a specified signal (SIGTERM if nothing is specified) to processes identified by name. The fuser command identifies the PIDs of processes that are using specified files or filesystems.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
22.6
Release:
24.el6
Size:
217 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the psmisc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install psmisc
This command will install psmisc on the server.
yum remove psmisc
This command will un-install psmisc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove psmisc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove psmisc
This command will un-install psmisc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove psmisc when using the -y flag.
yum update psmisc
This command will update psmisc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove psmisc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update psmisc
This command will update psmisc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove psmisc when using the -y flag.
yum info psmisc
This command will show you core information about the psmisc package.
yum deplist psmisc
This command will show you the dependencies for psmisc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update psmisc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on psmisc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.