Processes & Services

Process - A Program Running in the Foreground for the User

Service - A Program Running in the Background for the Operating System

Managing Processes

• System Monitor
• top and htop
• ps, pstree, kill, and pkill
• glances
• saidar

Daemon

• Traditional Name for Linux Services
• From Greek Mythology
• Process Names Typically End in 'd'
• Managed by systemd on Ubuntu
• Use "systemctl" Command to Interact