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Synopsis
Process Management describes how to control programs in UNIX, including how to start a job (program) and how to kill it.

Audience
This course is for anyone who is new to UNIX, or who wants to expand what they already know about UNIX.

Time
4 hours, based on viewing all pages and completing all questions.

Product Code: UNXTC7
After completing Process Management, the user should 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

What is a Process?
Introduces processes and shows how UNIX interacts with them.
 
Executing and processing commands
Using processes
Processing in the background
Using command pipelines
Working with daemon processes

Administering Processes
Explains how to monitor and control processes.
 
Monitoring processes with ps and time
Using foreground and background processes
Signaling processes
Killing processes
Logging out procedure with background processes
Prioritizing processes
Working with process groups
System tuning with ps and sar

Scheduling Processes
Describes how to schedule processes to run automatically.
 
Using at to schedule commands
Defining and manipulating a crontab
Using cron for system administration

This course is distributed with the UNIX Glossary.

 

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