Linux Administration/Commands/Processes

This lesson covers process management.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the process management portion of Linux+ certification include:
 * 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
 * screen

Readings

 * 1)  Process (computing)

Activities

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