Generally any process may be terminated by sending the appropriate signal to it. The command to send signals to a process is called 'kill', and the various signals you can use are identified by 'kill -l' or by 'man kill'
process control
process control
Unix configuration is the process of tailoring a freshly installed version of Unix to your particular environment. Each Unix system may do that differently.
Unix is inherently portable; this means that a program, script, or process may be moved from Unix system to Unix system with little effort or change (hence - portable).
yes
Yes
Kill is a program that can terminate or send a signal to process.kill -9 pidWould send signal 9 to process having specific pid. 9 Means KILL signal that is not catchable or ignorable. In other words it would signal process (some running application) to quit immediately.pid - process identifier.
Any Linux/Unix process that runs in the background is called a 'daemon' process. The word derives from the Greek meaning "worker".
Usually any orphaned process is owned by the 'init' process (process #1)
BG is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems to run a job(process) asynchronously in the background.
Are u talking abt the KErnal process? A program under execution is called process. All processes in UNIX are created using the fork() system call. rest of the question not clear.. SiddharthGanguly
Yes, but be careful as terminating the wrong process can crash the system.