UNIX: Process Management

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

Presentation Systems Available CBT in HTML System Requirements This series requires the following minimum configuration:      486/66 or higher PC 8 MB RAM Windows 3.1, or higher VGA or higher display (800x600 resolution recommended) Mouse DPEC Course Viewer, for delivery via LAN or standalone PC Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0, for dleiver via intranet (web server)