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Tag: system utilities

  • Percent CPU for processes

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    The ps program gives a snapshot of the processes running on your Unix-like system. On most Linux installations, this will be the ps program from the procps project. What does the %CPU field mean in the output of ps?

  • The sudo tty bug and procps

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    There have been recent reports of a security bug in sudo (CVE-2017-1000367) where you can fool sudo into thinking what controlling terminal it is running on to bypass its security checks.  One of the first things I thought of was, is procps vulnerable to the same bug? Sure, it wouldn’t be a security bypass, but…

  • procps 3.3.12

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    The procps developers are happy to announce that version 3.3.12 of procps was released today. This version has a mixture of bug fixes and enhancements. This unfortunately means another API bump but we are hoping this will be fixed with the new library API coming soon. procps is developed on gitlab and the new version…

  • procps 3.3.11

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    I have updated NEWS, bumped the API and tagged in git; procps version 3.3.11 is now released! This release we have fixed many bugs and made procps more robust for those odd corner cases. See the NEWS file for details.  The most significant new feature in this release is the support for LXC containers in both…