Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:50:34 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Pausing a task |
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How can I (as root) pause or suspend a process? On VAX/VMS one could do `set process=suspend`. This would allow the system manager to check on a possibly rogue user.
Let's say that "Hacker Jack" just got fired because he was disrupting a project. One needs to find any of his processes where he might be deleting a project tree. Pausing, rather than killing the tasks would allow evidence to be gathered. Basically, I need to set the task(s) priorities to something that will take them out of the run-queue altogether.
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