COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: Understand material from Tutorial 5 & 6

• Process control
  • stop and restart a job (cntl+z or add & at the end)
  • kill jobs(cntl+c, or kill -9 ProcessID#)
  • list stopped jobs
• File security (access control)
• Other commands
  • top lists all running processes (with appropriate flags, you can sort by CPU, memory usage etc.
  • jobs lists the processes that are currently suspended

Useful commands:

• $ ps -ef  //to look at all processes solaris
• $ a2ps filename.cpp
       //to ascii to postscript filter to print code
• $ chmod o+r-x * 
       // to add read/execute permission others

Useful Links:

• UNIX Book

Online Tutorial:

• UNIX Tutorial for Beginners