kill - Send a specified signal to a process or process group.
Questions about the kill shell utility and the kill(2) function on which it is based, which send a signal to a process or a process group.
Questions tagged [kill]
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Why won't this process die after SIGTERM
I have a process which appears to be hung.
When I try and reboot the process, I get a timeout.
service logstash_server stop
timeout: run: logstash_server: (pid 11797) 839061s, want down, got TERM
I have tried running a tail -f on the logs, which…
spuder
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kill all process of executables in a folder
I need to kill all the child process.
The main process in lmbench
pkill -9 lmbench
is not killing it, but
kill -9
kills the parent process,
but even after killing the parent process some process from /usr/lib/lmbebch/bin keeps running,…
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How to safely kill processes so that output redirection is not aborted?
I'm writing some automation scripts, in which I need to kill some processes.
Previously I would usually use kill -9 pid to kill processes but once upon a time, I notice that when I used kill -9 to kill some tcpdump processes:
For example:
tcpdump -i…
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killall for this terminal only
When debugging I often use killall to kill a process. This is really a bad habit because there might be more processes running of the same name on the system.
Normally the process I want to kill is a descendant from the same parent (or grandparent)…
Ole Tange
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What is a non-agressive way of killing a process?
I want to close a program through the command line (say Firefox or Thunderbird). The program is working just fine and in theory I could just go FILE > CLOSE. However, I want to do this through the command line so that is not an option. I could kill…
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How long has GNU kill(1) accepted a name argument?
We recently discovered that GNU kill, going beyond spec, will take a name as its argument and try to kill all processes with that name, in the same vein as pkill(1) or some implementations of killall.
I haven't been able to find GNU's changelog for…
kojiro
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Why kill -9 -1 doesn't work?
From man kill:
kill -9 -1
Kill all processes you can kill.
But when I do sudo /bin/kill -9 -1 nothing happens.
My uname -a for info:
Linux michal-Q530 3.16.0-45-generic #60~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64…
MichalH
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Guard against killing an already killed process
I'm writing a script that tries to kill a process. But the process might already been killed by others. How can I guard against it and prevent this kill command from terminating my process with throwing an error? I have PID of the process
Mohsen
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How do I kill a process and ensure that port bindings are cleaned up?
I have a situation where I kill a process, but when restarting it, I get the Address already in use error.
I am running sudo netstat -lntp to get the process ID, which returns, for example:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8002 0.0.0.0:* …
Gary Wright
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SIGUSR2 question
I am CentOS 7.4 on Dell servers.
Running this command in a script:
kill -SIGUSR2 `ps -ef|grep ${rule}/etc/suricata/suricata.yaml|grep -v grep|awk '{ print $2 }'`
The "ps" part here grabs PID.
What does SIGUSR2 do here?
I see it's "user-defined";…
hokie1999
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can't kill a process running on server
I ran a R console on our server, and the process took much longer time than I expected. Thus I was trying close it by ctrl+z, it didn't work. Finally I just closed the terminal. But the process is still there when I check with top commands. I used…
concer guo
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A higher level of sudo killing a PID
When I ps aux | grep 'S' I see a few programs that I want to kill. According to man ps the state code for S is interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete).
I've tried kill [Process ID (PID)] and also sudo kill [Process ID (PID)]. Despite…
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KILL process with input as process name and time
I am trying to write a shell script to kill a specified process if it runs more than specified time and get process information before killing.
Note: Script should take process name and time as input. What I have tried so far is as below: …
ravi
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Unable to kill process with kill -KILL
I am miffed... This should work. I am using AWS and inside of a docker image but I would still expect this to work:
root@1e896e1e9c8e:~/shipamax/server# pgrep -d " " -f ^chromedriver
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root@1e896e1e9c8e:~/shipamax/server# sudo kill -KILL…
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