procps in bsd

[neeraj shrestha]

thanks daniel for your solution.

What exactly does the linux watch command do?

$ 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.




On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 11:21, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:02, neeraj shrestha wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> > system has?
> 
> Well, I guess you could add up the fields ;)
> sysctl hw.physmem will show you how much physical memory the machine 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
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