A systems administrator wants to know the current status of a series of dd jobs that were started in the background three hours ago. Which of the following commands will achieve this task?

The correct answer is D. sudo killall -USR1 dd. https://askubuntu.com/questions/215505/how-do-you-monitor-the-progress-of-dd You can monitor the progress of dd once it's running without halting it by using the kill command to send a signal to the process. After you start dd, open another terminal and enter either: sudo kill…

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A systems administrator wants to know the current status of a series of dd jobs that were started in the background three hours ago. Which of the following commands will achieve this task?

Options

Asudo killall -HUP dd
Bsudo killall dd
Csudo killall -TERM dd
Dsudo killall -USR1 dd

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Explanation

https://askubuntu.com/questions/215505/how-do-you-monitor-the-progress-of-dd You can monitor the progress of dd once it's running without halting it by using the kill command to send a signal to the process. After you start dd, open another terminal and enter either: sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd$) Or, if you're on BSD or OS X: sudo kill -INFO $(pgrep ^dd$)

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#dd command#Linux Signals#Process Management#System Monitoring

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