Installing Procinfo-18

Estimated build time:           0.02 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  168 KB

Installation of Procinfo

Install Procinfo by running the following commands:

make LDLIBS=-lncurses &&
make install

Command explanations

make LDLIBS=-lncurses : This will use -lncurses instead of -ltermcap when building procinfo. This is done because libtermcap is declared obsolete in favor of libncurses.

Contents of Procinfo

Last checked against version 18.

Program Files

lsdev, procinfo and socklist

Descriptions

lsdev

lsdev gathers information about your computer's installed hardware from the interrupts, ioports and dma files in the /proc directory, thus giving you a quick overview of which hardware uses what I/O addresses and what IRQ and DMA channels.

procinfo

procinfo gathers some system data from the /proc directory and prints it nicely formatted on the standard output device.

socklist

is a Perl script that gives you a list of all open sockets, enumerating types, port, inode, uid, pid, fd and the program to which it belongs.

Procinfo Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 18.

Binutils: as, ld
Fileutils: install, mkdir
Gcc: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Make: make