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

Audience :

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

Time :

5.0 hour(s)

Objectives :

• 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

Features :

• A glossary

Prerequisites :

• None