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Fedora Core 3 PROCPS-3.2.3-5.1 Moderate Process Utilities Update

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-067 2005-01-27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : procps Version : 3.2.3 Release : 5.1 Summary : System and process monitoring utilities. Description : The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five, and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps, and CPU activity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Mon Jan 24 2005 Karel Zak 3.2.3-5.1 - add support for /proc/slabinfo 2.1 (#145369) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 72e6bea17f1b9be8fbccc5ba6fa80b58 SRPMS/procps-3.2.3-5.1.src.rpm 49ce73b6283cbd96be752a1d51d3efb6 x86_64/procps-3.2.3-5.1.x86_64.rpm b22dd8da4a390bcde8dd2226b9ddd0db x86_64/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.3-5.1.x86_64.rpm ed9f805b5346394b947561cf99f14b38 i386/procps-3.2.3-5.1.i386.rpm edb433e27a2cf80cd437a4858a0046c0 i386/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.3-5.1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The 3.2.3-5.1 Procps update for Fedora Core 3 significantly improves system management tools and monitoring capabilities.. procps update,Fedora utilities,system monitoring. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Jan 27, 2005 Fedora