Re: procps in bsd

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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=3D 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
> >
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