There are a number of ways to get to root access, some of them not entirely
intuitive. For example, what's the difference between sudo su and sudo -i? How
about su - ?
Root can be used in a variety of ways, so there are a variety of ways to get
Sometimes processes crash, or use too many resources, or just need to be
gracefully shut down. In this post, I'll cover the following:
* nice
* renice
* kill
* pkill
Let's talk about killing first. There are actually two different commands with
"kill" in them, and they do different things. There are also
elif is a portmanteau consisting of the words "else" and "if". In bash (and
Python), it's a way to test multiple statements before closing a loop, as
opposed to the single statement test provided by else. If a typical if/then
construct uses an if/then/else format, elif allows
And why would you want to use it?
Put simply, a Docker container is like a mini virtual machine. It contains just enough to do what it needs to do, and no more. It's also isolated from the machine it's running on, so crashing the host machine is many orders
