PMSOCKS(1)

💅 PMSOCKS — bestie, it's in the General Commands Manual, section 1, and it's giving networking magic

🌸 NAME 🌸

pmsocks — a lil shell wrapper for performance monitoring across firewalls 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pmsocks path [args ...]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you've got Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) clients chillin' on hosts on the internal side of a TCP/IP firewall, and they wanna monitor remote hosts on the other side of that firewall. that's literally what pmsocks is for, no cap 🫶

it just assumes two things, bestie:

• the firewall has been configured with a compliant sockd daemon
• the necessary access controls are satisfied

those are the vibes it needs to run. periodt.

so what is pmsocks actually? it's a thin shell wrapper around the tsocks(8) library, and it uses the tsocks(1) utility to do its thing. important: those are not included with PCP, so you gotta go get them yourself. you can obtain tsocks from https://tsocks.sourceforge.net/ ✨

💀 not me having to download a whole extra thing — yes bestie, you do. it's a wrapper, it needs its bestie to function.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/tsocks.conf — the configuration file for the tsocks(8) library. that's the one it reads, okay? 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pmcd(1)
• pmproxy(1)
• PMAPI(3)
• tsocks(8)

go read those too, iykyk 📚

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came from Performance Co-Pilot, tagged PCP, and it's the PMSOCKS(1) page — slay, you're officially informed 🧚✨