My RHEL Notes

general notes

$ cmd [-opt] [arguments]

cmd uses $PATH and arguments uses $PWD. Arguments are local to current working directory

Press TAB TAB to list available commands in $PATH or list available arguments in $PWD.

managing system resources

Ctrl+Z
jobs
fg %[job #]
ps [-fax]

Process Status can be suspended (S+PROCESS STATE CODES in $ ps man page to view), stopped (T), running (R+), zombie

running process is flagged to be scheduled in CPU cycles

# ps -ax

Command column square brackets [ ]  mean kernel started process.

kill -l // list kill options

process priority
# nice cmd
# renice cmd

# jobs // to get job #
kill -KILL %[job #] // to kill by job #

disk usage

use du command
# du -sh /* 2> /dev/null // use STD ERROR to bit bucket


# ps -eo "%c %n %y" // see ps man page, like %P & %U

Software Management

# rpm -qf

# rpm -ql

# rpm -V

# rpm -vi

# rpm -qa

yum resolves dependencies

rpm installs & deletes

# ls /etc/yum.repos.d/

man pages

$ man -k record | grep -i dvd
# man -k pdf

network stuff

$ mtr [destination]

users & groups

# egrep 'dave|darth|luke' /etc/{passwd,group,shadow}

pending categorization

ldd /usr/bin/sshd

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