Updated formula: htop

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Library/Formula/htop.rb b/Library/Formula/htop.rb
index 54e8fcd74..d8dfab61d 100644
--- a/Library/Formula/htop.rb
+++ b/Library/Formula/htop.rb
@@ -9,4 +9,16 @@ class Htop <Formula
     system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking"
     system "make", "install", "DEFAULT_INCLUDES='-iquote .'"
   end
+
+  def caveats; <<-EOS
+In order for htop to display correctly all the running processes, it needs to be ran as root.
+
+However, if you do not want to type `sudo htop` every time, you can change the owner and permissions for the executable binary:
+
+$ cd #{prefix}/bin/
+$ chmod 6555 htop
+$ sudo chown root htop
+    EOS
+  end
+
 end