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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

4.8 (5)
By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server is taking the server world by storm - and for a good reason! The server-focused spin of Ubuntu is a stable, flexible, and powerful enterprise-class distribution of Linux with a focus on running servers both small and large. Mastering Ubuntu Server is a book that will teach you everything you need to know in order to manage real Ubuntu-based servers in actual production deployments. This book will take you from initial installation to deploying production-ready solutions to empower your small office network, or even a full data center. You'll see examples of running an Ubuntu Server in the cloud, be walked through set up popular applications (such as Nextcloud), host your own websites, and deploy network resources such as DHCP, DNS, and others. You’ll also see how to containerize applications via LXD to maximize efficiency and learn how to build Kubernetes clusters. This new fourth edition updates the popular book to cover Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which takes advantage of the latest in Linux-based technologies. By the end of this Ubuntu book, you will have gained all the knowledge you need in order to work on real-life Ubuntu Server deployments and become an expert Ubuntu Server administrator who is well versed in its feature set.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Dealing with misbehaving processes

Regarding the ps command, by this point you know how to display processes running on your server, as well as how to narrow down the output by string or resource usage. But what can you actually do with that knowledge? As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes the processes our server runs fail or misbehave and you need to restart them. If a process refuses to close normally, you may need to kill that process. In this section, we introduce the kill and killall commands to serve that purpose.

The kill command accepts a PID as an argument and attempts to close a process gracefully. In a typical workflow where you need to terminate a process that won’t do so on its own, you will first use the ps command to find the PID of the culprit. Then, knowing the PID, you can attempt to kill the process. For example, if PID 31258 needed to be killed, you could execute the following:

sudo kill 31258 

If all goes well, the process will end. You...