Process Management

Summary

Viewing, monitoring and controlling running processes — ps, top/htop, kill, and understanding process states — essential for diagnosing a server that's slow or unresponsive.

How to Learn This

1Practice using ps aux and top/htop to inspect running processes.
2Learn to kill a runaway process safely (SIGTERM before SIGKILL).
3Understand process states (running, sleeping, zombie) and what each implies.

File Permissions & Ownership

Package Managers (apt, yum)

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