Processes

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1. Processes inside out
   1. Multi-user and multi-tasking
   2. Process types
      1. Interactive processes
      2. Automatic processes
      3. Daemons
   3. Process attributes
   4. Displaying process information
   5. Life and death of a process
      1. Process creation
      2. Ending processes
      3. Signals
   6. SUID and SGID
2. Boot process, Init and shutdown
   1. Introduction
   2. The boot process
   3. GRUB features
   4. Init
   5. Init and Tools
      1. Init run levels
      2. Tools
   6. Shutdown
3. Managing processes
   1. Work for the system admin
   2. How long does it take?
   3. Performance
   4. Load
   5. Can I do anything as a user?
      1. Priority
      2. CPU resources
      3. Memory resources
      4. I/O resources
      5. Users
      6. Graphical tools
      7. Interrupting your processes
4. Scheduling processes
   1. Use that idle time!
   2. The sleep command
   3. The at command
   4. Cron and crontab
5. Summary
6. Exercises
   1. General
   2. Booting, init etc.
   3. Scheduling

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