How To Install procServ on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install procServ on Rocky Linux 8. procServ is Process server with telnet console and log access

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install procServ on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install procServ.

Install procServ on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install procServ using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install procServ

Install procServ on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the procServ package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove procServ

procServ Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.