From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1

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Linux processes, part 2

Linux processes, part 2

- [Instructor] In this video, we're gonna talk about processes and daemons which run on Linux systems. We'll look at how to manage processes and do things such as terminating processes. So again, we have daemons, or as some people pronounce them, demons, or processes, that are started automatically when a Linux server or PC boots up. So again, we can view processes doing something like this. The system CTL command can be used to manage daemons on the system. So you could do things such as start and stop daemons and services running on your Linux server. Now in addition to daemons, we have interactive processes which are called jobs. So daemons run in the background, are started automatically, and don't need human interaction, but interactive processes are called jobs. Jobs are started from a shell by you, and there are commands to manage jobs as well. Now be aware that in Linux you have parent and child processes. So here's a list of processes running on the system, and I'll pipe that…

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