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- Release Notes for Proctool
- ==========================
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- September 14, 1995, Version 2.4.4 / 2.5.2
-
- Authors :
- Walter Nielsen (walter.nielsen@eng.sun.com)
- Morgan Herrington (morgan.herrington@west.sun.com)
-
- System Reqt's:
- Solaris 2.3 + Motif / 2.4 / 2.5
- SPARC / X86 / PPC
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- Note
- ----
- Since one of the executables 'pmon' is setuid to root some users have expressed
- concern regarding security. Since the authors are not security experts there
- is some risk of a security breach. However we will certify that we made an
- honest effort to avoid this. To verify that your binaries are exactly those
- released by the authors, you are welcome to e-mail to ask for checksums using
- either Solaris checksum (in either SysV or BSD mode) or md5. (If you're not
- familiar with "md5", it's freely available from "RSA Data Security" and should
- be considerably harder to spoof than "sum". It's available via anonymous ftp
- from: "info.cert.org:/pub/tools/md5")
-
- Bug fixes, enhancements in 2.4.4/2.5.2
- --------------------------------------
- - Fixed the "Unable to allocate space for process information tables" bug
- - Fixed the assertion error in network display
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- Bug fixes, enhancements in 2.3.8/2.4.3/2.5.1
- ---------------------------------------------
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- - Error bell can be configured on or off
- - "System Property Window" now supports a Network statistics display
- - C++ function names are demangled in the traceback display
- - "Mail" action in monitor no longer core dumps
- - Now Reports I/O using "cCtTdD" syntax rather than "sdNN" on x86
- - I/O graph no longer resizes incorrectly when handling large sets of disks
- - Removed spurious "kvm read error" messages
- - No longer core dump on diskless machines
- - Fixed a race condition in process synchronization under Solaris 2.5
- - Fixed a file descriptor leak in command execution (under monitors)
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-
- Bug fixes, enhancements in 2.3.7/2.4.2/ 2.5.0
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- This is a bug fix release, with the following known bugs repaired:
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- - No longer allows sequence in "Set UID" command which caused core dump
- - Fixed off-by-one error in signal popup
- - Fixed memory leak in system I/O stats graph
- - Reports I/O using "cCtTdD" syntax rather than "sdNN" on SPARC
- - Will now create initial ".proc.init" if requested
- - Memory map code doesn't give up on anonymous mappings
- - Should correctly handle "Interactive" scheduling class
- - Reports kernel value rather than computing CPU% for 2.4 and 2.5
- - Adds MEM% in Solaris 2.4 and 2.5
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- Bugs not fixed
- --------------
- - Process backtrace is currently broken on x86 machines
- - Line mode of CPU graph is broken on MP machines
- - Left slider bar doesn't cause "ps" window to scroll
- - Process I/O display in 2.4 and 2.5 doesn't yet show open fd's
- - Intermittent glitches in the displays/graphs
- - Still not in "pkgadd" format
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- Installation and Configuration
- ------------------------------
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- Installation and configuration is done in the following steps:
-
- * The tool is currently distributed in a compressed tar file format
- and not pkgadd. The file is usually called : proctool<OSversion>.tar.Z.
-
- * As root, uncompress the file and untar it to the directory of choice,
- a suggestion is /usr/local/bin.
-
- * The following files are in the uncompress tar file:
- proctool - (Executable) GUI front end component.
- pmon - (Executable) ProCtool backend.
- This must be owned by root and set UID.
- README - (Ascii) Simple installation guide (this section).
- proc.help.txt - (Ascii) Help text.
- proc.help.idx - (Ascii) Help index file.
- .proc.init - (Binary) Optional System wide initialization file.
- proctool.ps - Postscript Users manual
-
- * Make sure that pmon is owned by root and has set UID bit turned on.
- If not :
- su root
- chmod u+s pmon
- chown root pmon
-
- * Exit root mode, if desired.
-
- * You may with to adjust your PATH variable to include the directory containing
- proctool and pmon.
-
- * Proctool should work without changing any X resources, however, you
- might experiment with the following settings in your .Xdefaults file:
-
- proctool.*.background: grey
- proctool.*.title.fontList: times-bold-14
- proctool.*.label.fontList: times-bold-14
- proctool.*.Label.fontList: times-bold-14
- proctool.*.TextEdit.InputFocusColor: red
- proctool.*.InputFocusColor: lightslategrey
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- Optionally one can create a file named 'Proctool' in their home directory
- and include the above resources.
-
- * Invoke as 'proctool'.
-
-