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.
sa Generates a summary of information about users' processes that
are stored in 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.