procps - System monitoring utils like ps, top, vmstat, free, kill, sysctl, uptime, etc. HOWTO

ChangeLog


2011/07/18	- 3.2.7 -> 3.2.8
		- Updated Slackware note for 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1
		  and 13.37, removed older
Aug 2, 2006	- 3.2.6 -> 3.2.7
Nov 2, 2005	- 3.2.5 -> 3.2.6
		- Updated Slack note for 10.1 and 10.2
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
Feb 7, 2005	- 3.2.4 -> 3.2.5
Dec 21, 2004	- 3.2.3 -> 3.2.4
		- Removed the link to Michael Johnson's home page at Red Hat
		  (http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/) it's 404
		- Removed the link to Robert Love's procps page, it's 404
Oct 14, 2004	- Changed home page link (again) from
		  http://tech9.net/rml/procps/ to
		  http://procps.sourceforge.net/
		- Removed the Rik van Riel/Robert Love version leaving the
		  Albert Calahan (sourceforge) one
		- 3.2.1 -> 3.2.3
		- We now skip kill, added note about that, link to util-linux
		  howto
		- Instead of just creating a symlink from /usr/bin/free to
		  /bin/free, move it to /bin, create a symlink in /usr/bin
		  (like Slack does)
Apr 20, 2004	- Fixed a line that was > 80 characters
Apr 1, 2004	- 3.2.0 -> 3.2.1 (the sourceforge one)
Mar 9, 2004	- 3.1.15 -> 3.2.0 (the sourceforge one)
		- Updated note about kill
Dec 29, 2003	- 3.1.14 -> 3.1.15 (the sourceforge one)
		- Updated notes about Slack 8.1 + gcc 2.95.3
Dec 19, 2003	- 2.0.17 -> 2.0.18 (the Rik van Riel/Robert Love one)
		- Updated some misc notes
Oct 24, 2003	- 3.1.13 -> 3.1.14 (the sourceforge one)
		- 2.0.16 -> 2.0.17 (the Rik van Riel/Robert Love one)
Sep 22, 2003	- 3.1.12 -> 3.1.13 (the sourceforge one)
Sep 19, 2003	- 2.0.13 -> 2.0.16 (the Rik van Riel/Robert Love one)
		- 3.1.11 -> 3.1.12 (the sourceforge one)
Aug 4, 2003	- 3.1.9 -> 3.1.11 (the sourceforge one)
		- Changed the main homepage link to the Rik van Riel/Robert
		  Love one (using the Robert Love URL <g>)
Jun 3, 2003	- 2.0.12 -> 2.0.13 (the Rik van Riel/Robert Love one)
		- 3.1.8 -> 3.1.9 (the sourceforge one)
Apr 10, 2003	- 2.0.11 -> 2.0.12 (the Rik van Riel/Robert Love one)
		- 3.1.6 -> 3.1.8 (the sourceforge one)
Mar 7, 2003	- Added the other procps, the one at sourceforge to the top,
		  leaving the Rik van Riel/Robert Love procps at the bottom.
		  freshmeat and slackware both consider the sourceforge one
		  to be the best one to use.
		- Updated (main) home page link from
		  http://surriel.com/procps/ to
		  http://procps.sourceforge.net/
Dev 17, 2002	- 2.0.10 -> 2.0.11
		- Updated removal of old source dirs
Nov 14, 2002	- Fix up removal of previous versions
		- Remove the static library to avoid a false alarm with
		  chkrootkit.  I'm relatively sure it's not needed :-)
		- Added removal of old shared lib versions
Oct 9, 2002	- 2.0.9 -> 2.0.10
Oct 2, 2002	- 2.0.8 -> 2.0.9
Sep 27, 2002	- Split procinfo and psmisc into their own howtos
		- procps 2.0.7 -> 2.0.8
		- Added removal of previous version

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