Study Guide for Chapter 13

Which term describes the type of kill that results from successfully issuing the
command kill 1017?
hard kill
soft kill
total kill
effective kill
Which signal specifies a soft kill?
1
9
15
1000
1500
What is a key difference between the at command and crontab utility?
The at command is available on all !"# platforms$ the crontab utility is
only available on %inu&'
The crontab utility is available on all !"# platforms$ the at command is
only available on %inu&'
The at command can only be used to run commands( the crontab utility
can only be used to run scripts'
The at command can be set to run a task at a specific date in the future$
the crontab utility can be set to run the task repeatedly in the future'
)ou are using the at command and have finished entering the command list' Which
keystroke should be used to complete the operation?
*trl+c
*trl+d
*trl+e
*trl+&
Who is allowed to kill any process?
any user
any user having the correct permissions
the members of the user,s group
the superuser
Which character tells a !"# shell to run a process in the background?
-
.
/
?
Which command produces a sure kill of a shell?
kill
kill 0e
pkill
kill 09
"n 1olaris$ which command allows you to kill a process by its command name?
kill
pkill
ps 0k
*trl+c
Which key se2uence will sometimes terminate an unresponsive process?
*trl+&
*trl+c
*trl+3lt+4el
*trl+2
Which command can pause a session for a specified period of time?
suspend
sleep
pause
halt
Which column heading in the ps 0f output helps the user identify the parent of a
process?
"4
5"4
536"4
55"4
)ou want to see if a particular process called httpd is running on your !"# system'
)ou know that there are hundreds of processes running and you do not want to look
through them all' Which command allows you to 2uickly determine if httpd is running on
the system?
ps 0e httpd 7 grep
grep httpd 7 ps 0e
ps 0e 7 grep httpd
ps 0e httpd
"n 1olaris$ which command searches for all processes beginning with dp?
pgrep 0l dp
ps 0dp
ps 0ef 0dp
pgrep 8dp8
)ou are positive that a web server is running on your !"# machine but when you
logged in as user9 and ran the ps command you could not see it' What might the
problem be?
The command ps can not be used to list system processes'
The web server process is sleeping so it will not be listed'
)ou do not have permission to see the process'
The command ps doesn,t display all of the processes currently running'
)ou issue the ps 0ef command and see a process with the *:4 attribute of
;defunct<' What type of process is this?
child
=ombie
parent
orphan
Which command shows a full listing of every process on the system?
ps 0ef
ps 0u 0f 0t
ps 0e
ps 0f
Which command displays all the processes currently running on the system?
ps 0f
ps 0u
ps 0e
ps
Which type of process is started by the !"# kernel?
daemon
parent
orphan
=ombie
"f a parent process terminates before the child process returns$ what is the child
process called?
parent
orphan
=ombie
daemon
3 Terminal window is closed too 2uickly causing one of the processes to become an
orphan process' What will happen to it?
The process init will become its parent process'
"t will attempt to terminate itself'
"t will attempt to locate its parent process and upon failing to do that will
become a =ombie process'
"t will continue to run without a parent process until the ne&t shutdown'
Which !"# process manages all other processes?
initd
psmgr
taskmgr
sched
Which process always has a 5"4 of 1?
daemon
init
lpsched
dtlogin
sched
What does the !"# operating system use to identify and track a process until it is
completed or terminated?
5"4
56>*"4
1*?@4
1"4
Which term describes a child process that stops responding and does not return its
output to the parent process?
=ombie
orphan
child
parent
Which term describes a process that spawns another subprocess?
child
=ombie
orphan
parent