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Lab 03: Managing Process and Services
PS
PS - This command is used list/see the processes that are running on the Linux
system/server. Process is a running instance of a program. There are many commands
which are used to monitor and control these processes in Linux and ps is one such
command which is used to monitor them. Below are some of the examples which show their
practical applications.
• ps -ef - List all the processes that are currently running, where -e is used to display all the
process, -f is used to display full format listing
• ps -ef | grep ssh - List all the process which are related to ssh
• ps -f -u vagrant,postfix - List the process related users vagrant and postfix. You can use
UID too to find the process related to that particular user like (#ps -f -u 500)
• ps -f -p 1307 - List the process which has PID of 1307. You can list multiple process by
listing multiple PIDs separated by commas in a single command
• ps -f -ppid 1295 - List the process which has PPID of 1295
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