Source: ps-watcher Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Jan Wagner Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: autotools-dev, libconfig-inifiles-perl Homepage: https://ps-watcher.sourceforge.net/ Vcs-Browser: https://gitlab.uncompleted.org/debian/ps-watcher Vcs-Git: https://gitlab.uncompleted.org/debian/ps-watcher.git Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: ps-watcher Architecture: all Depends: libconfig-inifiles-perl, procps, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Recommends: libsys-syslog-perl Description: monitoring a system via ps-like commands This program runs the ps command periodically and triggers commands on matches. The match patterns are Perl regular expressions which can refer to the process information via variables. . For example it can be used to ensure that a daemon is running, or is not running too many times. It can also be used to determine when a process has consumed too many resources, perhaps due to a memory leak.