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How to kill the processes accessing Internet in background using terminal commands. Command to stop (disconnect) the processes accessing Internet. Command to kill the process accessing Internet.

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kill -9 'name_of_program_using_internet' – Nicholi Jul 28 '11 at 0:43
@Nicholi : But how to find processes accessing internet ? – JOHN Jul 28 '11 at 0:50
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kill -15 is preferable, since programs designed to respond to the 15 argument will clean up before ending. – myopic.bones Jul 28 '11 at 0:59
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To find any processes making/listening for internet connections

lsof -i

and use kill with the PID you find.

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thanks. is working – JOHN Jul 28 '11 at 3:21
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