RED HAT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION I

7.6. Practice: Killing Processes

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Contents
Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 3
Outcomes ............................................................................................................................ 3
Lab Topology ....................................................................................................................... 4
Lab Settings ......................................................................................................................... 5
1 Guided Exercise........................................................................................................... 6

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Introduction

In this lab, students will use keyboard sequences and signals to manage and stop
processes.

Outcomes

This practice exercise will provide experience with observing the results of starting and
stopping multiple shell processes.

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Lab Topology

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Lab Settings

The information in the table below will be needed in order to complete the lab. The
task sections below provide details on the use of this information.

Virtual Machine IP Address Account Password

(if needed) (if needed)

Server1 Machine 172.25.1.11 student student

Desktop1 Machine 172.25.1.10 student student

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1 Guided Exercise

Before you begin...

Access the graphical login screen of the Server virtual machine and log in as student.

The topology includes two virtual machines that are accessible to users. Take care to
perform the tasks as instructed, including using the appropriate virtual machine as
directed.

1. Open two terminal windows, side by side, to be referred to as left and right.

2. In the left window, start three processes that append text to an output file at
one-second intervals. To properly background each process, the complete
command set must be contained in parentheses and ended with an ampersand.

[student@server1 ~]$ (while true; do echo -n "game " >> ~/outfile; sleep 1;
done) &
[student@server1 ~]$ (while true; do echo -n "set " >> ~/outfile; sleep 1;
done) &
[student@server1 ~]$ (while true; do echo -n "match " >> ~/outfile; sleep 1;
done) &

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3. In the right window, use tail to confirm that all three processes are appending
to the file. In the left window, view jobs to see all three processes "Running".

[student@server1 ~]$ tail -f ~/outfile

[student@server1 ~]$ jobs

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4. Suspend the "game" process using signals. Confirm that the "game" process is
"Stopped". In the right window, confirm that "game" output is no longer active.

[student@server1 ~]$ kill -SIGSTOP %number

[student@server1 ~]$ jobs

5. Terminate the "set" process using signals. Confirm that the "set" process has
disappeared. In the right window, confirm that "set" output is no longer active.

[student@server1 ~]$ kill -SIGTERM %number

[student@server1 ~]$ jobs

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6. Resume the "game" process using signals. Confirm that the "game" process is
"Running". In the right window, confirm that "game" output is again active.

[student@server1 ~]$ kill -SIGCONT %number

[student@server1 ~]$ jobs

7. Terminate the remaining two jobs. Confirm that no jobs remain and that output
has stopped. From the left window, terminate the right window's tail
command.

[student@server1 ~]$ kill –SIGTERM %number

[student@server1 ~]$ kill –SIGTERM %number
[student@server1 ~]$ jobs
[student@server1 ~]$ pkill –SIGTERM tail

8. Close your sessions with the bash shell.

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