procServ command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

procServ: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: procServ: command not found

Solutions to procServ: command not found

How To Fix procServ: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu procServ is provided by procserv package.

procserv is:

procServ is a wrapper that starts an arbitrary command as a child process in the background, connecting its standard input and output to a TCP port for telnet access. It supports logging, child restart (manual or automatic on exit), and more.

procServ does not have the rich feature set of the screen utility, but is intended to provide running a command in a system service style, in a small, robust way. Handling multiple users, authorization, authentication, central logging is done best on a higher level, using a package like conserver.

For security reasons, procServ only accepts connections from localhost.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install procserv

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install procserv.

sudo apt -y install procserv

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install procserv

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix procServ command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.