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♦ The Vixie cron system
♦ How to get the most out of your system
4.1. Processes inside out
4.1.1. Multi-user and multi-tasking
Now that we are more used to our environment and we are able to communicate a little bit with our system, it is time to study the processes we can start in more detail. Not every command starts a single process. Some commands initiate a series of processes, such as mozilla; others, like ls, are executed as a single command.