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A script's background process is still alive after closing the terminal
This is more of a process management/signal handling question than a Bash question. It just uses Bash to explain the issue.
I'm running a Bash script in which I run a background process.
This is the ...
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End process from another SSH window
I forgot to use screen and I have a task that has been running for quite some time, and I do not want to lose the saved data. Basically Ctrlc will end the task and save the data if I am on the same ...
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What is the difference between exiting a process via Ctrl+C vs issuing a kill -9 command?
I know I can kill any process with kill -9 command . But sometimes i see that even if I have terminated a program with CTRL+C , the process doesn't get killed . So I want to know the difference ...
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What happens to suspended jobs in unix?
We can issue CTRL+Z to suspend any jobs in Unix and then later on bring them back to life using fg or bg. I want to understand what happens to those jobs that are suspended like this ? Are they ...
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How can I kill a <defunct> process whose parent is init?
Transmission is intermittently hanging on my NAS. If I send SIGTERM, it doesn't disappear from the process list and a <defunct> label appears next to it. If I send a SIGKILL, it still doesn't ...
