Linux Ch 9

25 July 2022
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What option can be used with the ps command to display an entire list of processes across all terminals and including daemons?
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-e
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In the output of the ps -l command, what column is the most valuable to systems administrators because it indicates what the process is currently doing?
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process state
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How many different kill signals can be sent by the kill command to a given process?
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64
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What kill signal stops a process, then restarts it with the same PID?
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SIGHUP
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Which kill signal terminates a process by taking the process information in memory and saving it to a file called core on the hard disk in the current working directory?
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SIGQUIT
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What character, when appended to a command, causes the command to be run in the background?
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&
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When killing a background job with the kill command, the background job ID must be prefixed by what character below?
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%
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After a background process has been started, what command below can be used to move it to the foreground?
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fg
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When there are multiple background processes executing in the shell, the jobs command indicates the most recent one with which symbol?
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+
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In order to display a list of at job IDs, what option can be specified to the at command?
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-l
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In a cron table entry, what field specifies the absolute pathname to a command that is to be executed?
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sixth
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What option, when added to the crontab command, opens the vi editor with a user's cron table?
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-e
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Which of the following is not one of the three main types of Linux commands??
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device calls
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What number indicates the lowest kernel priority (PRI) of a process possible??
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127
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On a Fedora based system, where are the shell environment and scheduled commands for at stored??
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/var/spool/at
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?In the process state column, what does an "R" indicate?
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The process is currently running on the processor.
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When viewing the output of the ps ax? command, what does a < symbol in the STAT column indicate for a process?
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The process is high priority.
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What command below is used to display the lineage of a process by tracing its PPIDs until the init daemon??
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pstree
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What can be used on a Linux system to trace the lineage of each child process??
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parent process ID