procps in bsd

[Dillon]

/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.
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>any way thanks daniel.
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>On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 12:19, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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>>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:33, neeraj shrestha wrote:
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>>>$ 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 :)
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>>>On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 11:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:02, neeraj shrestha wrote:
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>>>>>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?
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>>>>>system has?
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Well, I guess you could add up the fields ;)
>>>>sysctl hw.physmem will show you how much physical memory the machine has.
>>>>
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>>>>>On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 10:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:25, neeraj shrestha wrote:
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
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>>>>>>>On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 22:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
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>>>>>>>>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, neeraj shrestha wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>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
>>>>>>>>
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