Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Thu Mar 25 10:51:47 PST 2004


On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:05:36PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> NetBSD has it in the base system.  OpenBSD will soon have it in
> their base system.  Solaris has it in their base system.  My
> installs of Redhat 7.3 have it, although I'm not sure if that is
> in the base system or some rpm that we (@RPI) add...

Both pgrep and pkill are part of the procps RPM which is a mandatory
package for the base system (at least for Red Hat 9).  They are also
present on SuSE 9.0.

Neither are listed in the latest LSB version (however ps is).

FWIW...

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