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Linux Job Management, Process Management, and Help

This document provides information about Linux commands for job management, process management, and help. It lists commands for running jobs at later times (at, atq, atrm), viewing and killing processes (ps, kill, killall, top, jobs), and getting help documentation (man, info). It also discusses setting process priorities (nice, renice), running processes in the background (&), and special file permissions (sticky bit, SUID, SGID).

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Linux Job Management, Process Management, and Help

This document provides information about Linux commands for job management, process management, and help. It lists commands for running jobs at later times (at, atq, atrm), viewing and killing processes (ps, kill, killall, top, jobs), and getting help documentation (man, info). It also discusses setting process priorities (nice, renice), running processes in the background (&), and special file permissions (sticky bit, SUID, SGID).

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Linux Job Management, Process

Management, and Help


Linux Help Commands

apropos keyword - Show all commands with the keyword in their


apropos
description. The same as the "man -k" command.
Bash shell help for the bash builtin command list. The help command gets
help
help for a particular command.
man Get help from the manual for a command.
man -k keyword - Show all commands with the keyword in their description
man
"man 2 kill" - Display page 2 of the kill command
manpath Determine user's searchpath for manpages.
Documentation on Linux commands and programs similar to the man pages
info
but navigation is organized different.
Linux Job Management

at Similar to cron but run only once.


Lists the user's pending jobs. If the user is the superuser, everybody's jobs are
atq
listed.
atrm Deletes at jobs.
atrun Run jobs queued for later execution
Executes commands when system load levels drop below 0.8 or value
batch
specified in atrun invocation.
A deamon used to set commands to be run at specific times. Starts the
cron commands in the crontab file. Used to clean up temporary files periodically in
the /var/tmp and /tmp directories.
nice Run a program with modified scheduling priority.
nohup Run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty.
watch Execute a program periodically showing output full screen.
Linux Process management

bg Starts a suspended process in the background


fg Starts a suspended process in the foreground
gitps A graphical process viewer and killer program.
jobs Lists the jobs running
kill Ex: "kill 34" - Effect: Kill or stop the process with the process ID number 34.
killall Kill processes by name. Can check for and restart processes.
pidof Find the process ID of a running program
ps Get the status of one or more processes. Options:

 u (more info)
 a (see all)
 -l (technical info)
Meanings:

 PPID-parent process ID
 PID-process ID

ps ax |more to see all processes including daemons


pstree Display the tree of running processes.
Generates a summary of information about users' processes that are stored in
sa
the /var/log/pacct file.
skill Report process status.
snice Report process status.
top Display the processes that are using the most CPU resources.
CTRL-C Kills the current job.
& At the end of the command makes it run in the background.

Here we will discuss about the 3 special attributes other than the common
read/write/execute.
Example:
drwxrwxrwt - Sticky Bits - chmod 1777
drwsrwxrwx - SUID set - chmod 4777
drwxrwsrwx - SGID set - chmod 2777

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