Chapter 9. Administration Calls

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Gathering information about processes

• Killing processes and send or respond to signals

• Sending messages to user terminals

• Gathering system information

• Using /proc for gathering information

• Scheduling with cron

• Writing and reading the MySQL database from Bash

• User administration script

• Bulk image resizing and format conversion

• Taking screenshots from the terminal

• Managing multiple terminals from one