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Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

pranshuparmar

Comments (28)

  • mh-
    This is great. Small, trivial suggestion: the gif that loops in the README should pause on the screen w/ the output for a few seconds longer - it disappears (restarts) too quickly to take in all of the output.
  • pranshuparmar
    A quick note on scope: this is not meant to replace existing monitoring or observability tools. It’s designed for those moments when you SSH into a box and need to quickly understand “why is this running” without digging through configs, cron jobs, or service trees manually.Happy to answer questions or adjust direction based on feedback.
  • vzaliva
    Sounds like something I could use, but installing a binary via `curl` doesn't sit right with me. Next problem you have is "explain how this thing was installed on my system" followed "is it up to date (including security patches).I hope they have deb package or snap some day.
  • fracus
    I really like this. Something like this should already exist, stock.
  • DougN7
    What does this means for context: “Git repository name and branch” Does this mean it detects if something is running from within a git repository folder? Couldn’t find the code that checked this.
  • be_erik
    If you're looking to build and install this from source, here's the incantation:CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-X main.version=dev -X main.commit=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) -X 'main.buildDate=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)'" -o witr ./cmd/witrCall me old-fashioned, but if there's an install.sh, I would hope it would prefer the local src over binaries.Very cool utility! Simple tools like these keep me glued to the terminal. Thank you!
  • properbrew
    This is extremely useful, will be added to the toolbox. Thanks for sharing.
  • techsystems
    I'm really loving this!'Responsibility chain' will become a trendy phrase.
  • TheCraiggers
    This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this.Do you have any qualms about me making an entry in the AUR for this?
  • 4ggr0
    i definitely see the use for it, lots of moments where i wonder how or why something was started.
  • wyldfire
    `ps uaxf` gives me pretty similar output.
  • q2dg
    pstree doesn't answer the why?
  • dontdieych
    Nice and installed then starred.
  • Saris
    This looks very handy to have around!
  • canxerian
    Great idea!
  • pcdoodle
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