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Tag: Init

Debian's procps 3.3.9

Dec 16, 2013dropbear1 Commentprocpsdebian, Distributions, Init, Operating system, Pidof, RedHat

While the upstream procps which was released last week has a new pidof, the Debian package will continue to not have that binary and the Debian sysvint-utils package will continue to have that file. That stops any messy procps splits and putting one part into Essential etc. This may mean that one distributions pidof doesn’t…

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pidof moving to procps

Aug 9, 2013dropbear2 Commentsdebian, procps, Softwaredebian, Distributions, Init, Linux, Linux Standard Base, Pidof

pidof is a program that finds the PID of a named program. In some ways it is like a cut-down pgrep found in the procps package.  pidof currently sits in sysvinit-tools. There are plans to move all utilities that use the proc filesystem under one package which will make the maintenance of them simpler, which…

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