procps-ng

procps is the package that has a bunch of small useful utilities that give information about processes using the /proc filesystem. The package includes the programs ps, top, vmstat, w, kill, free, slabtop, and skill. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/procps-ng as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/procps-ng)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/procps-ng)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/procps-ng --binlink

will add the following binaries to the PATH:

• /bin/free
• /bin/pgrep
• /bin/pidof
• /bin/pkill
• /bin/pmap
• /bin/ps
• /bin/pwdx
• /bin/slabtop
• /bin/sysctl
• /bin/tload
• /bin/top
• /bin/uptime
• /bin/vmstat
• /bin/w
• /bin/watch

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/procps-ng --binlink
» Installing core/procps-ng
☁ Determining latest version of core/procps-ng in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715) than remote version (core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200305231457)
→ Using core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715
★ Install of core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking pwdx from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked pwdx from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/pwdx
» Binlinking watch from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked watch from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/watch
» Binlinking free from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked free from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/free
» Binlinking uptime from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked uptime from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/uptime
» Binlinking pkill from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked pkill from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/pkill
» Binlinking tload from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked tload from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/tload
» Binlinking vmstat from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked vmstat from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/vmstat
» Binlinking ps from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked ps from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/ps
» Binlinking top from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked top from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/top
» Binlinking sysctl from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked sysctl from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/sysctl
» Binlinking pgrep from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked pgrep from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/pgrep
» Binlinking pmap from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked pmap from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/pmap
» Binlinking pidof from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked pidof from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/pidof
» Binlinking w from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked w from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/w
» Binlinking slabtop from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 into /bin
★ Binlinked slabtop from core/procps-ng/3.3.15/20200702121715 to /bin/slabtop

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/free --help or free --help

$ free --help

Usage:
 free [options]

Options:
 -b, --bytes         show output in bytes
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