When you run a typical command from the shell, it will be run in the foreground. You have to wait for the process to complete before you can type another command. Some processes take time to complete and you can’t…
Month: July 2014
Using the MySQL Binary Log
Enabling and managing binary logging will make it more likely that you can recover your database to a specific point in time. These point in time recoveries require proper backups as well as having your MySQL server instance configure for…
Adjust Process Priority with Nice and Renice
In a recent article, we discussed how to end a running process ( See: Killing Linux Processes ). Today we are discussing how to reprioritize or adjust process priority with nice and renice linux commands. Nice Value – Low or…
Find Which Linux Process is Using Your Files or Ports
If you have ever tried to unmount a filesystem, USB stick, cdrom, etc… but found that it was busy and therefore could not be unmounted, you will like the fuser command. Fuser’s man page tells us that fuser will “Show…
Killing Linux Processes
From time to time, if you are a Linux Administrator, you will have to kill a linux process. The linux kernel has at least 32 signals. Amongst those 32, you may recognize some of the more common ones: SIGTERM, SIGHUP,…