Total Time: 5 hour(s)

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

Ojectives: 
After completing this course, students will be able to:
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.

Topics: 
What is a Process?
Administering Processes
Scheduling Processes

Technical Requirements: 
P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.