Proc::ProcessTable, version 0.43 Please use rt.cpan.org to submit bugs and patches. STATUS ====== This is BETA software; it seems to work, but use at your own risk :) Currently works on darwin, nonstop-ux, Cygwin on Windows, linux, solaris, aix, hpux, freebsd, irix, dec_osf, bsdi, netbsd, unixware 7.x, SunOS and openbsd. Please see the "README.osname" files for details on individual os implementations. Please see the file PORTING if you are interested in making it work on something else. Please see the file TODO for a list of issues that need to be addressed (and send me patches!). Please note that the Cygwin/windows port requires the Cygwin environment to work (available from http://cygwin.com/), and that the code for the port is derived from Cygwin code and is therefore covered by the Cygwin license (http://cygwin.com/licensing.html). Multithread support is now available for Solaris; please see README.solaris for info. It may work under other OS's as well; please let me know if it does. Comments, bug reports, patches and especially ports are greatly appreciated. If you want to submit a patch, *please* use standard context-diff format; if you're submitting a port, a tarball of the new files is great. DESCRIPTION =========== This module is a first crack at providing a consistent interface to Unix (and maybe other multitasking OS's) process table information. The impetus for this came about with my frustration at having to parse the output of various systems' ps commands to check whether specific processes were running on different boxes at a larged mixed Unix site. The output format of ps was different on each OS, and sometimes changed with each new release of an OS. Also, running a ps subprocess from within a perl or shell script and parsing the output was not a very efficient or aesthetic way to do things. With this module, you can do things like this: # kill memory pigs use Proc::ProcessTable; $t = new Proc::ProcessTable; foreach $p ( @{$t->table} ){ if( $p->pctmem > 95 ){ $p->kill(9); } } There is another short example in the file "example.pl" in the distribution. For a more elaborate example (in German), see . If you can't read German, try my other module, WWW::Babelfish! There are also two contributed modules: a module called Proc::Killall contributed by Aaron Sherman to kill all processes whose command-lines match a given pattern, and a module called Proc::Killfam by Stephen Lidie to kill a list of processes and their children. These modules are installed along with Proc::ProcessTable. Pod documentation is included in both of them. INSTALLATION ============ This module needs the File::Find and Storable modules in order to work. File::Find is generally included with perl distributions; Storable is available from CPAN. After unpacking the tar file, do: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install There is embedded POD documentation in ProcessTable.pm and Process/Process.pm. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ================ Thanks to the many people who have sent in ports and patches. Without them this module would be impossible to support on so many platforms. Patches are noted in the Changes file. David Paquet AIX port Mike Romberg HPUX port Slaven Rezic FreeBSD port W. Phillip Moore IRIX port Peter ? IRIX version patch Bernhard Schmalhofer dec_osf port Sean Eskins bsdi port Peter Reich netbsd port Aaron Sherman Proc::Killall module Steve Lidie Killfam.pm module Martin Lucina Unixware 7.x port Shawn Clifford SunOS port J Robert Ray Windows (Cygwin) port. Tom Wyant Darwin port. Mike Steinert Nonstop-UX port. Openbsd port. Please note that Bernard Schmalhofer is no longer able to provide support for the dec_osf port. COPYRIGHT ========= Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Daniel J. Urist. All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. -- Daniel J. Urist durist@frii.com