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CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide

You're reading from   CompTIA Linux+ Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to achieving LX0-103 and LX0-104 certifications with mock exams

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789344493
Length 590 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Inshanally Philip Inshanally
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Preface 1. Configuring the Hardware Settings FREE CHAPTER 2. Booting the System 3. Changing Runlevels and Boot Targets 4. Designing a Hard Disk Layout 5. Installing a Linux Distribution 6. Using Debian Package Management 7. Using YUM Package Management 8. Performing File Management 9. Creating, Monitoring, Killing, and Restarting Processes 10. Modifying Process Execution 11. Display Managers 12. Managing User and Group Accounts 13. Automating Tasks 14. Maintaining System Time and Logging 15. Fundamentals of Internet Protocol 16. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting 17. Performing Administrative Security Tasks 18. Shell Scripting and SQL Data Management 19. Mock Exam - 1 20. Mock Exam - 2 21. Assessment 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Managing process(es) with the systemctl command

On most new distributions that use system, we would manage processes using the systemctl command. The Linux developers have also left support for the service command; if we try to terminate a process using the service command, then we will see that it is actually going to redirect our request to the systemctl command. Let's try this:

[root@localhost philip]# service crond status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status crond.service
crond.service - Command Scheduler
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/crond.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-08-02 07:13:38 PDT; 1 weeks 5 days ago
Main PID: 991 (crond)
CGroup: /system.slice/crond.service
└─991 /usr/sbin/crond -n
Aug 02 07:13:38 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Command Scheduler.
Aug 02 07:13:38 localhost.localdomain...
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