103.5 – Create, monitor and kill processes

Weight

4

Description

Candidates should be able to perform basic process management.

Key Knowledge Areas

• 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.

Files, Terms, and Utilities

• &

• bg

• fg

• jobs

• kill

• nohup

• ps

• top

• free

• uptime

• pgrep

• pkill

• killall

• watch

• screen

• tmux