UNIX Systems - Process Management

Summary:

This course describes how to control programs in UNIX including how to start a job (program) and how to kill it.

This lesson is part of our UNIX Systems online training series which contains over 39 hours of self-paced courseware. Our web-based training provides 6 months of unlimited access.

Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Describe how UNIX executes a command
• Define the use of processes
• Describe the advantages of background execution
• List three common daemon processes
• Monitor processes with ps and time
• Differentiate between foreground and background processes
• Kill processes
• Prioritize processes
• Tune the UNIX system with ps and sar
• Define and manipulate a crontab

Outline:

• What is a Process?
• Administering Processes
• Scheduling Processes

Applicability:
This course is for anyone who wants to get the most out of using UNIX Systems.

Prerequisites: None:

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