In several situations, it is necessary to control current processes. Some examples include:

• In several situations, it is necessary to control current processes. Some examples include:

• running a process in the background
• running other commands/processes while the first one executes in the background
• executing process at a specified time and date
• running daily updates, weekly patches, and monthly backups
• killing / restarting processes
• cleaning up deadlocked processes, stopping, starting, or restarting a process currently running on the system

• It is important to remember that most processes submitted by a user will only run as long as the user remains logged in.