From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training
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Work with background processes - Linux Tutorial
From the course: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Essential Training
Work with background processes
- [Instructor] So we've been working, so far, with the command line and talking about single processes that we're running, but we know very well that the computer is running multiple programs at the same time. Those services are running in the background, and they're being done automatically, controlled by systemd; and what we're going to do is show how to do this manually. Now there's another program that we can run called xterm, which will bring up a GUI terminal; and this is a terminal, and we can do things in there like we can, like doing an LS or doing a cat. And it's independent of this terminal over here. But we can see that when we started up xterm, we sort of lost control of the terminal over here. That's because when we started xterm, it became the foreground process. Now what we can do is we can go back to our standard terminal here and we can issue Ctrl + Z. What that's gonna do is that's gonna take the process we started, stop it, and put it in the background. So if we go…
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