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  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>lxc-ps</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>lxc-ps</refname>

    <refpurpose>
      list the processes belonging to a specific container.
    </refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>lxc-ps <optional>--name name</optional>
        <optional>--lxc</optional>
	<optional>ps option</optional>
      </command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      <command>lxc-ps</command> is a wrapper tp ps command
	to report the name of lxc container associated
	to reported processes.
    </para>
    <para>
	The cgroup fs must be mounted before container creation,
	to be able to have <command>lxc-ps</command> to find
	the container associated to processes.
    </para>
    <para>
	The additionnal specified ps options must not
	remove the default ps header and the pid information,
	to be able to have the <command>lxc-ps</command> to find
	the container associated to processes.
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Options</title>
    <variablelist>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>
	  <option><replaceable>--name NAME</replaceable></option>
	</term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>
	    specify the container <replaceable>NAME</replaceable>
	    to limit the output to the processes belonging 
	    to this container name.	    
	  </para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>
	  <option><replaceable>--lxc</replaceable></option>
	</term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>
	    limit the output to the processes belonging 
	    to all lxc containers.
	  </para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
	<term>
	  <option><optional>ps options</optional></option>
	</term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>
	    The <command>ps</command> options must be separated
	    from <command>lxc-ps</command> options by
	    the <option>--</option> parameter.
	  </para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term>lxc-ps --name foo -- --forest</term>
	<listitem>
	<para>
	  list all the processes belonging to container 'foo' and show
	  dependencies.
	</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>

    <simpara>    
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>ps</refentrytitle>
	<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>,
    </simpara>

  </refsect1>

  &seealso;

  <refsect1>
    <title>Author</title>
    <para>Daniel Lezcano <email>daniel.lezcano@free.fr</email></para>
  </refsect1>

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