Miscellaneous Tools Flashcards
‘ps’
gives the list of processes
‘kill’
can kill a process, you have to write pid given by ps
‘&’
will force process to run in background
‘ctrl z’
for suspending a process
‘ctrl c’
to kill a process
‘bg’
running a process in background
‘fg’
bringing a process in foreground
‘finger’
gives list of user on a machine
‘finger username’
will give some details about use
‘finger user@desh’
will tell when user has last checked his mails
‘who’
gives all users on a macine
‘rwho’
gives all users on all the machines
Use man and man –k
Help for using any command
‘passwd’, ‘yppasswd’, ‘kpasswd’
-Change password
‘talk username@machine’
Try this when one of your friend is login on another machine. This you will feel better than yahoo or msn messenger