Lesson 3: Managing Software and

Processes

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 Objectives covered

o 102.5 Use RPM and YUM package management (weight: 3)

o 102.4 Manage Debian package management (weight: 3)
o 102.3 Manage shared libraries (weight: 1)
o 103.5 Create, monitor, and kill process (weight: 4)
o 103.6 Modify process execution priorities (weight: 2)

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 Manage shared libraries

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 Library types

Shared library naming convention: libLIBRARYNAME.so.VERSION

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 Library files location

$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

$PATH

/etc/ld.so.conf.d/

/etc/ld.so.conf

/lib*/ & /usr/lib*/

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 Dynamic linker/loader (ld-linux.so or ld.so)

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 Working with Library cache (/etc/ld.so.cache)

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 Library dependencies

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 Create, monitor
and kill process

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 Viewing processes

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 Viewing processes

ps [option]

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 Viewing processes

top

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 Employing muliple screen

screen & tmux

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 Background and Foreground processes

Foreground process

background process

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 Manage background processes

jobs [option] [job-id]

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 Bring jobs to foreground and vice versa
Bring jobs to foreground

Send running program to background

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 Process signals

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 Sending signals to process

kill [option] process

Default signal is TERM

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 Sending signals to process

killall, pkill & pgrep

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 Keep job running after log-out

nohup program/script &

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 Modify process execution
priorities

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 Manage process priorities

nice –n VALUE Command

nice value in scale of -20 à 19 (with higher priority on the left)

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 Manage process priorities

renice [–n] VALUE [PID] [-u Users] [-g Groups]

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 Question...!

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