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Decode Flags for Kill Command

I am new to Shell Scripting. I saw this Command on a Book for Linux shell Scripting $ kill -HUP 1234 >killout.txt 2>killerr.txt I know what the command does, but i am not able to understand ...
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What did I just kill?

Is there any way to find out what I just killed? $ ps -A -o pid,cmd | grep someApp | grep -v grep 2802 python someApp.py $ sudo kill 2302 $ EDIT: To clarify, I need to know what PID 2302 was before ...
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Mediastream goes defunct

I am running my donnet framework based application using mono in Linux Ubuntu. My application uses linphone's mediastream command to open the RTP socket and hook the audio device. I am using the ...
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Cannot kill a java process

I have a java process that cannot be killed. I have tried every method I know, or that I have found on the internet to no avail. I have tried: killall java kill -9 <pid> kill -11 <pid> ...
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Can't kill process, not in zombie or uninterruptable sleep [closed]

I can't figure out how to kill this process. I ran du, but it took too long so I tried to kill it. It didn't die. I've tried SIGKILL, SIGSTOP, SIGINT, etc, with no effect (can't kill it, can't stop ...
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How can I kill the top CPU/IO process quickly?

I find that sometimes my Linux will stop responding, so I need to switch to another terminal with CtrlAltF2, and type a command to kill the top CPU usage process or top IO usage process, so that the ...
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Kill all processes related to an application

I have two processes that are temporarily spawned and I need to kill them. Here are the processes from ps aux david 38329 0.0 5.0 3916476 104624 s002 S 11:33AM 0:17.43 ...
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Linux: Kill process based on arguments

How can I kill a process based on its command line arguments? killall, pgrep, and pkill seem to only work based on the process name. I need this to be able to differentiate between a number of ...
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Is there a log of past threads that are now closed?

Sometimes, I have a rogue Java process which takes up 100% of my CPU and makes it jump about 30C in temperature (usually resulting in a crash if not killed). Problem is, I can never really identify ...
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How to stop a bunch of processes on unix fast?

How to stop a bunch of processes on unix fast. I can use ps/top, kill. If the number of processes is very large, I use shell script. Are there other ways, only one or two unix commands can do it ...
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Is it possible to kill another user's program? How?

root can kill any program run by any user. Is it possible for a user to kill another user's program without using sudo, etc.? Example: How can make user foo kill program x which is run by user bar?
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killall gives me `no process found ` but ps

Could somebody explain to me the difference between kill and killall? Why doesn't killall see what ps shows? # ps aux |grep db2 root 1123 0.0 0.8 841300 33956 pts/1 Sl 11:48 0:00 ...
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Where can I see a list of kernel killed processes?

Is there some way I can check which of my processes the kernel has killed? Sometimes I log onto my server and find that something that should've run all night just stopped 8 hours in and I'm unsure if ...
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why not kill -9 a process?

I am always very hesitant to run kill -9. But I see other admins do it almost routinely. I figure there is probably a sensible middle ground. So: When should kill -9 be used? What should be tried ...