Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Techniques

Chapter 3: Using Commands and Services for Process Management

Managing processes is an important job of a Linux system administrator. That can be for a variety of reasons – maybe some processes got stuck and we need to finish them, or we want to set some process(es) to work in the background or even to be started periodically or at a later date. Whatever the scenario is, it's important to know how to administer processes and make them do the work that needs to be done efficiently and with regard to other processes running on the system.

In this chapter, we are going to learn about the following recipes:

• Process management tools
• Managing background jobs
• Managing process priorities
• Configuring crond

Technical requirements

For these recipes, ...