Miscellaneous Tools Flashcards

1
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‘ps’

A

gives the list of processes

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2
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‘kill’

A

can kill a process, you have to write pid given by ps

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3
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‘&’

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will force process to run in background

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4
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‘ctrl z’

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for suspending a process

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5
Q

‘ctrl c’

A

to kill a process

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6
Q

‘bg’

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running a process in background

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7
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‘fg’

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bringing a process in foreground

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8
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‘finger’

A

gives list of user on a machine

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9
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‘finger username’

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will give some details about use

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10
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‘finger user@desh’

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will tell when user has last checked his mails

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11
Q

‘who’

A

gives all users on a macine

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12
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‘rwho’

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gives all users on all the machines

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13
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Use man and man –k

A

Help for using any command

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14
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‘passwd’, ‘yppasswd’, ‘kpasswd’

A

-Change password

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15
Q

‘talk username@machine’

A

Try this when one of your friend is login on another machine. This you will feel better than yahoo or msn messenger

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16
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lp, lpr

A

-Printing

17
Q

‘lpq’

A

or checking request queue on printer

18
Q

‘ruptime’

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gives list of all the machines and their load and number of users on each

19
Q

NIS and LDAP

A

All user accounts are created and maintained on one machine (NIS server), other machines use this info (By creating account on NIS server you can login anywhere)

20
Q

NFS

A

All HOME’s are on NFS server, all other machines “mount” it from there. (Wherever you login, you see same files)