This lesson covers process management.

Objectives and Skills

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

1. Wikipedia: Process (computing)

Multimedia

Activities

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

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