A simple way to monitor and manage processes from the command line of a Linux system is to use the command top (/bin/top). We will see how easy this is to use and how top amalgamates many smaller utilities into the single text interface We can start top without any option or arguments as a […]
LPIC-1 Exam 101
LPIC-1 103.3 Using the find command
The GNU find command has to be one of the most useful tools ever and I think this is one of those tools that some people just never get to see in its full glory so do spend some time practising on your own systems and in the man pages. In this blog we look […]
103.3 cp and mv
Topic 103.3 from the LPI LPIC-1 101 exam looks at basic file management and, of course, we can expect some simple demonstrations here; but we all have to start somewhere on our journey. In this tutorial we loo at the command cp and mv. These are both very fundamental commands to Linux and are located […]
Using rmdir, mkdir and rm -rf
Objective 103.3 of the LPIC-1 101 exam is all about basic file management and in this video we look at creating directories with mkdir. We can delete empty directories with rmdir. To delete a directory with content then we can use rm -rf. In creating a new directory we need the write permission to the […]
Using nice and renice to modify execution priorities
Getting ready for the exam 117-101 from the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 101 we look at using nice and renice to modify the CPU time for an application.When a command begins in Linux is is assigned a priority to talk with the the CPU, by default this is 80. The lower the priority the less […]
Using top to monitor resource usage
For objective 103.6 of the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 101 exam you will be expected to know a little about monitoring resources with the command /usr/bin/top. We can run it just as and view the information at hand with the processes using the most CPU listed highest. We can toggle the load information with l […]