CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 Cert Guide

Chapter 4

Managing Processes and Services

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Managing Processes

• Sending Signals to Processes

• Job Control

• Managing Process Priorities

• systemd

• Scheduling Services

• Running ad hoc Jobs

The exam objective covered in this chapter is as follows:

• Objective 1.4: Given a scenario, configure and use the appropriate processes and services

Every system needs to run, to operate, and in order to do that, processes and services must be set up, configured, and used properly.

A process is code that has been executed and is now stored in memory. The code could come from an application, an executable file, a command, or any other sort of system code. System services are more of a backend set of processes, where you may ...