Questions tagged [kill]
kill - Send a specified signal to a process or process group.
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killall gives me `no process found ` on a mac
I am a bit confused as the same command works on linux which does not work on my mac in a Ubuntu Linux docker container.
root@9xxx:/app# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT ...
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How to kill a subprocess shortly after called from parent programmatically?
How can I terminate a process that is launched from within an application programmatically? To clarify, there is an application that launches a WebKit subprocess from time to time, and I want to kill ...
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Difference between Ctrl-C and kill -INT?
I have a signal handler in C++ program:
void term(int signum)
{
cout << "in term" << endl;
# Do Stuff
exit(0);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
# Do Stuff
signal(...
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How to kill a child process like TAR + XZ running from POSIX master script but called from BASH terminal prompt by a signal?
My script is (at the core) running this part, which obviously takes a long time if input_dir is large enough:
XZ_OPT='-9 --extreme --threads=8 --format=xz --check=sha256 --verbose --verbose' \
tar --...
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Unable to kill / terminate programs if another terminal window opened
I’m running a program on raspberry pi which opens few other python programs for a certain amount of time and then closes them. What is happening:
if I’m running the main program from e.g. Python 3 ...
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How to terminate a process when kill -9 doesn't work? [duplicate]
I've seen a few cases of processes that don't respond to kill -9.
Most recently, I've seen both lsusb and reaper get stuck and be unresponsive to kill -9. (After trying all the usual signals first) ...
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How to kill all background jobs in dash?
Simply kill $( jobs -p ) not work in dash.
For example in dash:
$ sleep 999 &
$ kill $(jobs -p)
dash: 2: kill: Usage: kill [-s sigspec | -signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or
kill -l [...
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What if 'kill -9' still does not work?
Despite kill -9 $PID should work always, it sometimes does not. At least I have some encounters to recall. Yesterday I got one such: I had a problem with my SD-card and I wrote it over with zeroes (dd)...
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Explanation for the command “kill -n 9 0” [duplicate]
I am searching kill command's full manual, but in man kill or even with Google, I cannot find this command's meaning below:
kill -n 9 0
I am sure it has a very easy answer.
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kill( ) won't stop subprocess if done from process started by /etc/rc.local?
On a raspberry pi (a recent raspian) I wrote an application that, on demand via network request, spawns an application, and on demand via different network request, kills it. The spawning mechanism is ...
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Stop sshd and kill ongoing connections
Under certain conditions, I want the sshd daemon to be stopped. When I do this, I want the currently open connections to be stopped too. By default, the sshd service does not kill existing connections ...
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Terminate a subshell background process
I am starting entr as a subshelled background process as described in its man page to listen to changes to some file foo, occuring during interactive use of some program baz, and I would like to ...
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take action once background script is killed
I have below script running as background process.
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
:
done
email_kill_alert() {
echo "" | mailx -s "scritp received kill signal." emailid
}
Above script is run as background ...
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System process running in R state, strace doesn't show any output and isn't killing it -9 [duplicate]
So as in image the process running in R state. Not able to kill them with kill -9. Also strace isn't showing any output. What can be the reason for this and is there any option other than restarting ...
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Using the “kill” command in Ubuntu
I was running a simple script that would take the output of the kill command and print it onto a file. However, while experimenting for better/more in depth or interesting results, I realized that the ...
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Is nohup supposed to kill my script process?
I got a script that I'm trying to run with nohup:
nohup /home/user/script.sh&
If I run ps -a I can still see the process but if I close the terminal and run ps -a again the process is not there. ...
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How can/should I kill masscan process
I host a small Ubuntu server with DigitalOcean and recently realized a guest user was compromised. I have been trying to cleanup up my server to stop future attacks and have come across a process ...
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How to get list of processes from N days ago from ps output
How to get list of dates from an output of ps command to only show those processes beyond 30 days?
My goal is to kill these processes. I can easily do this by killall command.
E.g. killall -u user --...
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Reusing TCP port of a killed process
I have a TCP server process on Linux. It sometimes gets killed by SIGKILL, after which its parent restarts it. I cannot change the way the child is killed. Sometimes (about once per 100 times) the ...
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Killing a process running executed with sudo without using sudo in kill command
So I have a server, and I have access to sudo to do one thing only: run a single whitelisted script (I'll call it the target script). I do not have access to sudo anything else. Problem is, this ...
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Kill script, but allow currently executing program to exit
I have a bash script runs a command in an infinite while loop. The script looks something like:
while :
do
python3 my_program.py
done
Is there a simple way to terminate this while loop from the ...
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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 ...
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Kill a stuck process in running state
I am trying to kill a du -mh command that has been stuck running for 18 hours. I have tried many kill signals kill -15, kill -2, kill -9 as root but with no luck. Are there any other techniques to ...
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Killing a middleman server started by bash script?
I have a bash script that looks like this:
bundle exec middleman server & node script.js &&
kill -9 $(lsof -i:4567 -t) &&
bundle exec middleman build --verbose
Right now, the ...
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I have a process (left) that is stuck, and I can't kill it. (kill -9 does not work), what to do?
I have a process that I ran under a Tmux session that I cannot kill.
I have tried kill, kill -9, and a few other kill numbers, without it having any effect.
I killed the tmux session successfully ...
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Killing extra instances of a service and getting notified about them
I have 2 Ruby-on-Rails applications running on my server. Their deployment is automated through Capistrano. The applications uses Sidekiq for processing background jobs.
I use two individual scripts ...
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Is there any danger in using kill -11 instead of kill -9?
I've realised recently that the kill utility can send any signal I want, so when I need to SIGKILL a process (when it's hanging or something), I send a SIGSEGV instead for a bit of a laugh (kill -11 ...
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SD card mount Problem “ext4” -o “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid” “/dev/mmcblk0p2”
I was extracting one tar.xz file via my Raspberry SD card, so the process must be completed after a long time but when I wanted to unmount the SD card I get one error which one other program (the ...
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Node processes keep restarting
I'm currently running a few node processes on PM2, but when I stop them with pm2, then run ps -ef | grep node, it shows the processes as still running.
One of them is an express application that ...
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Why I killed apache user, but it still display?
I am using CentOS 7, Nginx, I don't want use Apache httpd. Then I kill user apache
pkill -9 -u apache
pkill -KILL -u apache
then I check again, I still see user apache. How to kill all process what ...
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Stop multiple processes from command line correctly
I'm executing the following command on mac
./node_modules/.bin/webpack --watch & nodemon dist/server.js
I tried killing the processes using Ctrl+C however i still notice that node processes are ...
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How do we write script to kill PID ( If else loop )? [closed]
I have a file which will contain multiple PIDs as show below.
#cat /scripts/pid.txt
12345
23456
34567
45678
I have to write a script which will read the PID's from above file one by one and kill ...
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Killing two-part process with && by PID
I have a bash script where I am sleeping and then executing a command in a background process. For example
sleep 30s && ./script.sh &
If I grep ps for "sleep 30s" and kill the process ...
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Why is “A stop job is running” a good design choice?
In a typical modern Linux distribution, the user may experience this when trying to shut down the computer:
A stop job is running for Session c2 of user, or equivalent.
I understand the idea ...
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How to stop/kill thread in process
I see all of threads according process with ps -T
Is there any way to kill/ stop specific thread(not all the process) by thread id/thread name?
I prefer with shell script but if it impassable so in ...
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Why does `kill` not appear to be a Bash builtin? (it should be) [closed]
The Internet is unanimous: kill is a Bash builtin. Bash changelog says the same.
However my other builtins apparently think otherwise:
$ builtin kill
bash: builtin: kill: not a shell builtin
$ type ...
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Shell Script -kill all process by name but me
I have shell script test.sh that I running.
I want that in the beginning of this script ,if there are older test.sh that running ,kill them first.
If I killall test.sh the newest process killed too....
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kill gnu parallel inside a bash function
I am using gnu parallel in a subshell function, e.g.,
func()(
parallel --will-cite sleep ::: 60
)
upon sending SIGTERM to the function I want parallel to be killed too. But I get
$ func &
[...
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How do I run multiple processes with the same process group id?
I am learning how to use the killpg syscall. So for an experiment, I want to start two new processes with the same pgid and then attempt to kill them using killpg.
I read about setsid so I tried ...
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How to kill all instances of a program running apart from the newest one
I have a problem whereby my script keeps spawning new ssh processes. This shouldn't happen I know, but I would like to clean the old ones up from time to time.
If I do :
ps -ef | grep "ssh" | awk ...
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Why can I not kill a process in the same line I start it using fuser?
I have been trying to kill a process by looking at the listening port and nothing seems to be working. The code is as follows:
(code to open port 8545) && fuser -k 8545/tcp
I also tried with ...
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Kill -9 problem in bash file
I wrote a 2 line bash script file in Centos 6.8
#! /bin/sh
pid= ps -ef | grep -i 'adminserver' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'
kill -9 $pid
when I run the script i get the following output:
kill: ...
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Unix Commands not working from Crontab [duplicate]
I have this command in a bash script called run.sh
kill $(lsof -t -i:34445)
On a terminal when i run this script using bash run.sh it works. However, i am using crontab to schedule this command. ...
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Kill remote process via ssh
I have a process that I want to kill remotely. I tried
ssh remotehost "kill -9 $(ps -aux | grep foo | grep bar | awk '{print $2}')"
but this returns the error
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n ...
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Can I safely reduce CPU usage with kill -SIGSTOP?
I have 7 differents workspaces and each of them have a different purpose.
But everything runs in the background... For exemple the workspace 5 with my browser is using CPU even when I'm on workspace ...
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Background process gets killed in ubuntu 16.04 server
I have a spring boot application and i'm running it as ROOT through this command:
mvn spring-boot:run -Drun.jvmArguments="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m" > lms_logs.log 2>&1 &
After a few hours ...
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Why doesn't ctrl+u send SIGKILL? stty says it should
I can interrupt a program by pressing ctrl+c in the shell. Often this kills the program but some programs trap the signal and keep running.
I want to be able to kill such programs more aggressively ...
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why sometime need to stop process by kill -9
we have kafka machines in hadoop cluster
the script that stop the kafka process do the following
kill PID
but we notice that the script that stop the kafka not really kill the process
therefore we ...
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Is it possible to distinguish signal from kernel at reboot and at kill from terminal
As I know, we can send a signal SIGTERM to a process by pressing ctrl+c or by using pkill -f processName.
Also, when we reboot or shutdown, the kernel will send SIGTERM to each process too.
So I'm ...
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How is “some other pending, unblocked signal” involved when a process sends a signal to itself?
Advanced Programming Unix Environment says:
#include <signal.h>
int kill(pid_t pid, int signo);
...
If the call to kill causes the signal to be generated for the
calling process ...
