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           SPELL=procstatd
         VERSION=1.4.2
          SOURCE=$SPELL-$VERSION.tgz
          MD5[0]=7a4741657e234cfef97e4c154544e9fb
SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/$SOURCE
        WEB_SITE=http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma
         ENTERED=20020609
         UPDATED=20020619
      MAINTAINER=zoran@idi.ntnu.no
         LICENSE=GPL
           SHORT="daemon for gathering statistics about /proc"
cat << EOF
procstatd is a daemon that can be run either from userspace or inetd 
that can be queried via a simple API to parse various files in /proc
and transform them into statistics. The returned data is in a simply 
parsable ASCII string (in a single packet) and might be used to, for 
example, drive a simple display. The nice thing about it is that by 
running procstatd's on all nodes of a beowulf or cluster, users or 
managers can (with suitable front-end tools) see what the loads and 
so forth are. The package contains also a perl script (webwatchd) 
for generating a simple html page with the statistics of the nodes.
EOF