Questions tagged [pkill]
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Execute multiple commands in one line through ssh starting with pkill -f
Noticed something strange while working with a raspberry pi.
Using pkill with no options allows me to run other commands afterwards in the same line, but if I use the option -f, then subsequent ...
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how to kill java process forcefully and remove directory which is used by that process
I have one use case where I am killing a java process with pkill java, and after that, I want to remove certain directories. I have used rm -rf /pathtofolder but it gives:
rm: cannot remove '/...
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Linux using pkill to kill by process name for a specific user
I have a bash script where I run the pkill command to kill running processes. I have the username param defined as follows:
username=$(whoami)
I want to be able to kill processes based on the process ...
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Why are the signal lists for kill, killall and pkill not the same?
I researched the kill, pkill and killall commands, and I understood most of their differences. However, I am confused about their signals:
If I run kill -l, I see:
1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) ...
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What does Session ID mean within the pkill context?
About the pkill command, I know is possible kill processes - for specific scenarios - based through tty[1-6] and pts/[0-N]. I tested and works as expected. Until here all is ok.
But now, according ...
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When to use "pkill..." flag in newsyslog.conf?
I'm configuring relayd to log to its own log, and I'm not clear on whether I should run "pkill...".
I can see the following in the default newsyslog.conf:
# logfile_name owner:group ...
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pkill in server ubuntu
I used the command pkill as root on my vps ubuntu, and I got kicked out of the server and can't access it.
This is what I wrote inside the terminal:
pkill h
h is my user in ubuntu
What is the ...
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How to kill chrome under Linux so that it'll resume next time
How to kill chrome under Linux so that it'll resume/restore the sessions when it is started next time?
It's a trivial thing to do under Windows, but under Linux, no matter how I tried to kill chrome, ...
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Delete / Kill a process which won't die
I'm using Linux Ubuntu 20.04.
I have a process with PID 21:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00....
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Is there a way to trigger the closing of one program by closing another? A shell script perhaps?
So, my situation is this: I have created a launcher, key bindings and an alias that opens GLava and CMus in a drop-down terminal at the same time, using this shell script:
#!/bin/bash
c=$(ps -e | ...
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Is there a clean way to `sudo pkill` processes without including the `sudo` process?
I need to kill some processes that are run as sudo, matching them by full name, and count the number of original command invocations.
For each process there are two processes: the command itself, and ...
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How do I send signal to all processes in a cgroup?
kill $(< /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/<name>/tasks ) works, but looks clumsy, produces a warning if cgroup is empty and may hit command line length limit.
pkill -F does not accept cgroup tasks file ...
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Why does pkill not work with rofi?
I want to toggle rofi an application launcher with one keybinding. I made a shell script,
#!/bin/bash
rofi -dpi 1 -modi drun -show drun -show-icons
And bound it to some key. This works but to toggle ...
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How to kill the PID of service that configured as Restart=always
Dear friends and colleges ,
We have service under /etc/systemd/system
Service name is calc_live_servers.service
Since Restart=always is configured in calc_live_servers.service
Then when we kill ...
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How to forcefully close a ssh connection is the command on the target server never returns
I have an automation tool that generates and executes the below command that fires rpm -qa grep httpd on the target host 10.9.100.67.
ssh -vvv -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'IdentityFile="/app/...
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How to get cron to pkill my java process?
I have a cron job that runs to detect if a certain application has frozen. If so it should kill the frozen application and restart it. The application is a Java program. When the application is frozen,...
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would like to suppress the output of pkill on a background process
I have a shell-script in which I do an
iostat -c 1 > data.cpu. &
Later in the script, after I've collected the data I'm interested in, I do a
pkill iostat
which kills iostat and allows me ...
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Why pkill return -9?
I want to run command pkill -9 -f 'java.*7104' in python3 use subprocess.run, but I do not know why returncode=-9, can anyone explain this?
>>> subprocess.run("pkill -9 -f 'java.*7104'", ...
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How to get pkill to output process information of killed process?
How to get pkill to output process information of killed process?
I don't see anything in man pkill that suggests this is possible. I know I can do a pgrep and process the list and then pipe that to ...
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Digital ocean server access issue
I have accidentally run command pkill -U root.
I was in root user..
now I am not able to access through ssh from my local system but I can access my server's terminal on my browser from my digitl ...
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Tagging a process so I can kill it later easily by identifying
I need to tag a generic process (I don't really control the command being run).
Could I do something like this:
run_special_cmd(){
"$@" -- --very-special-command
}
run_special_cmd sleep 5000 &...
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pkill does not work on Ubuntu 16.04
I list all the processes in the system using ps -aux
and I found this java process:
10253 2.1 10.1 3259172 398864 pts/0 Tl 06:58 0:09 java -jar /opt/can-peris/core-price-update/menu-core-...
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MacOS: su pkill -9 “process_name” = sorry
How to use pkill as su on a Mac?
When I run su pkill -9 "RFBEventHelperd" in the terminal I get su: Sorry (but works as sudo). I am looking for a way to kill this process from inside a script that ...
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pkill -P variable not working when running .sh under cron
I have a very simple .sh script to kill a process. The processes saves its PID to pid2.txt.
pkill -e -P $(cat pid2.txt)
exit
When I run this as sudo ./myscript.sh from the command line it works fine....
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Using `pgrep` to emulate `ps -ef` for use in a `for i in` loop
Ubuntu 16.04
I am used to using this command line to kill any process match said COMMAND
for i in $(ps -ef | grep COMMAND | awk '{ print $2 }'); do kill -9 "$i" &>/dev/null;done
shellcheck ...
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How to stop a script within another script
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04, using a terminal emulator.
I have two scripts: a.sh and b.sh.
a.sh calls b.sh.
a.sh
echo "a is running"
sleep 5s
bash b.sh
sleep 5s
echo "a is still running"
b.sh
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What is the `-KILL` option in `pkill` command
I have found a way to logout any user by using the command line. By executing the command pkill -KILL -u <username>, I can now log myself out from the session I have entered.
My question is ...
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Process is running [closed]
I have run the following command as root today morning sh /home/suio/LoadSnortSingature.sh > /home/suio/logs.txt 2>&1 after some time the session of the terminal closed and I have relogged in ...
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How to force a PID to terminate? [duplicate]
Yes, I've tried all the basic kill, pkill, etc. methods that come up with a Google search.
Sometimes it works, other times it seems something is preventing the process from terminating.
There is no ...
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How to kill all processes owned by `user` on Centos 7? [duplicate]
I read in an online flash card that the command is:
pkill -u bob $(pgrep -u bob)
However, I think this is wrong. I think it's saying:
Kill all the processed owned by bob, and 4572\n4600
Because:
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Kill process by name
I am using bash to start several instances of one python program, like this:
python example.py -id $i
where $i is the id given to the instance. All the processes are started on the same user, and ...
