Linux Administration/Commands/Processes

This lesson covers process management.

Objectives and Skills

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Objectives and skills for the process management portion of Linux+ certification include:[1]

  • Create, monitor and kill processes
    • Run jobs in the foreground and background
    • Signal a program to continue running after logout
    • Monitor active processes
    • Select and sort processes for display
    • Send signals to processes
    • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
      • &
      • bg
      • fg
      • jobs
      • kill
      • nohup
      • ps
      • top
      • free
      • uptime
      • pgrep
      • pkill
      • killall
      • screen

Readings

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  1. Wikipedia: Process (computing)

Multimedia

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Activities

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  1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Create, monitor, and kill processes

Lesson Summary

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Key Terms

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References

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