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Controlling processes

What is a process?

Finding out what processes are running

Background jobs and job numbers
    Waiting for background jobs to finish before proceeding
    Finding out what jobs are running

Killing a process
    Suspending a job
    Moving background jobs to the foreground
    Moving foreground jobs to the background

Keeping a process running after you log off

Using signals under the UNIX system

Reducing the priority of a process
    Identifying the niceness of a process

Scheduling your processes
    Running processes at some time in the future
    Executing processes at regular intervals
    Delaying the execution of a process