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Ensure a process is always running
I started hosting sites a while back using Cherokee. For external sources (FastCGI, etc) it has an option to launch the process if it can't find one running on the designated socket or port. This is ...
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why not kill -9 a process?
I am always very hesitant to run kill -9.
But I see other admins do it almost routinely.
I figure there is probably a sensible middle ground.
So:
When should kill -9 be used?
What should be tried ...
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How to make a process invisible to other users?
How could you launch a process and make it invisible to the top command? The process is started by a normal user (not root), and should not be visible to other normal users.
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How can I kill a <defunct> process whose parent is init?
Transmission is intermittently hanging on my NAS. If I send SIGTERM, it doesn't disappear from the process list and a <defunct> label appears next to it. If I send a SIGKILL, it still doesn't ...
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Per process firewall?
I've been reading around but can't seem to find a way to create per-process firewall rules. I know about iptables --uid-owner but that only works for outgoing traffic. I've considered scripting ...
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Getting a window's PID by clicking on it
Is there any package which shows PID of a window by clicking on it?
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Why is the default process creation mechanism fork?
The UNIX system call for process creation, fork(), creates a child process by copying the parent process. My understanding is that this is almost always followed by a call to exec() to replace the ...
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'kill java' doesn't kill java
I am running debian right now and sometimes I need to kill java manually from the terminal, but when I try kill #pid# or pkill java nothing happens. No console output (ok, that's normal) and java is ...
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How can I see what processes are running?
I use Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I would like to see what processes are running. I know that PostgreSQL is running on my machine but I can not see it with the top or ps commands, so I assume that they ...
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What does this process STAT indicates?
If you check the STAT column in above image you will see Ss S S< SN and R+
What does this indicates ? Process states.
If yes,Then what is the significance of 'Ss S< SN and R+'?
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Terminal command (called not from SU) that would restrict process from writting to all directories but one?
We have an app testApp. We have a folder called notRestricted in the directory where we run app from. We want to limit access of the app to file system so that app could write only to that folder (we ...
