How To Install procServ on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install procServ on CentOS 8.
What is procServ
procServ is a wrapper that starts an arbitrary command as a child process in the background, connecting its standard input and output to a Unix domain socket or a TCP port for telnet access. It supports logging, child restart (manual or automatic on exit), and more. procServ does not have the rich feature set of the screen utility, but is intended to provide running a command in a system service style, in a small, robust way. Handling multiple users, authorization, authentication, central logging is done best on a higher level, using a package like conserver. For security reasons, procServ only accepts connections from localhost.
We can use yum or dnf to install procServ on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procServ.
Install procServ on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install procServ using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install procServ
Install procServ on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install procServ using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install procServ
How To Uninstall procServ on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the procServ package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove procServ
procServ Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/procServ
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/e1f76de1c06d89b36b4ba3618ada22b92e6489
/usr/share/doc/procServ
/usr/share/doc/procServ/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/procServ/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/procServ/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/procServ/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/procServ/README.md
/usr/share/doc/procServ/procServ.html
/usr/share/doc/procServ/procServ.pdf
/usr/share/doc/procServ/procServ.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/procServ.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install procServ on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.