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How Windows/Linux assign PID to processes?
Q1 : I want to know how Windows/Linux assign a PID to a process when that process began? Is it a delimited random number? or it is fixed for a file on a compute? does it have a special algorithm? and ....
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What process is the parent of the init process in Linux?
Who or Which process is the parent of INIT process?
INIT is the first process which is initialized by the Kernel, kernel is not one process, So what is its parent process id value?
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How to execute a script 20 at a time with different variables at a time in parallel?
I am trying to run 20 files at a time, using warc.sh or a better way to put it is 20 instances of warc.sh at a time with directory contents as the input. I am also trying to watch the PIDs in case bad ...
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Weird start-stop-daemon behaviour?
I have the following script:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import sys
for s in sys.argv:
print(s)
Now I execute:
sudo start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/test.pid --make-pidfile /var/run/test....
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If I know the PID number of a process, how can I get its name?
If I have the PID number for a process (on a UNIX machine), how can I find out the name of its associated process?
What do I have to do?
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Red5 on Debian, output PID
I'm fumbling my way through with this one, as a novice with all things linux so please be patient :)
I would like to output the process ID of a program to a file. From my readings this is generally ...
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Is there a process with pid 0 linux? [duplicate]
Is there a process with pid 0 linux? Also is there any negative pids? This is just out of curiosity :D
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hide pid when a process is launched in background
So I put this command vncconfig -iconic &, this causes vncconfig window to launch and terminal will display like [1] 13488. I want to hide this pid info.
That is, when we put the command, only ...
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How to find PID's user name in Linux?
Can you help me to find the PID's user name?
Sometimes my server has high load. When I run top -c, I cannot even find the owner of a process which is causing load on the server.
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Determine display or VNC session based on PID
I frequently VNC into a server where we run many concurrent computationally intensive matlab processes. Sometimes, one of my processes misbehave, which I can see from top, but I have a hard time ...
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Is a process PID guaranteed to stay the same as long as the process doesn't die?
I'm doing some simulation work with Linux, and the code I'm working on right now only works under the assumption that, once a process has been assigned a PID by the kernel, that PID will remain the ...
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Linux - alternative places where to store pid file instead of /var/run
As written in the title, where should I let the init script write the pid file? are there any standard paths I should choose instead of the /var/run?
Could /tmp be a good place where to store it or ...
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Get PID of process started in screen by su
i have a simple script that starts quassel-core in a screen session as different user!
The script is:
#!/bin/sh
su ircc -c 'screen -dmS quassel /home/ircc/quassel/quassel-core'
I want to start and ...
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Reattaching to screen - Linux
We run several screen instances from one box, eg. :
27185.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
27209.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)
27281.pts-53.CentOS-57-64-minimal (Detached)...
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How can I stop jenkins.pid in fedora15?
I have jenkins running, but I need to stop it. in /var/run I have jenkins.pid which is what the standard jenkins script uses to stop jenkins. The jenkins script uses start-stop-daemon which doesn't ...
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