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What to do if kill -9 doesn't work?
I've got a pesky process (in this case, a stranded process that was supposed to be running in iPhone Simulator (now long quit).
97442 ?? 0:00.00 (MyProcess)
I've tried everything I can ...
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kill and restart process by cron
I've got python script running on a remote machine, periodically it stops responding so I ssh in, kill the existing process, and then restart it. I have to do this several times a week and it's ...
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When/why do you use kill %%?
I've seen people use kill %% rather than kill %. As far as I can tell, they both do the same. Is there a difference?
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kill process windows using taskkill
I have a java script which is running and kills some processes according to the pid. I run a shell with command of "taskkill /F /pid " adding the pid of the process. I have a problem that sometimes ...
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Kill process by name and owner?
Before I look into reinventing the wheel and roll my own, is anyone aware of an application/utility that allows me to kill processes, filtering by both process name and process owner? Alternatively ...
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Good, lightweight GUI-based process monitor for Linux
I'd like a snappy GUI-based (I insist since people still want to propose console-based) application that can show me running processes and allow me to kill them, on Linux. It doesn't need to be as ...
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Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried ntsd
As descriebed in My VirtualBox virtual machine freezes, when I try to use the webcam, I end with a process which can't be deleted by taskmanger, pskill nor even ntsd, which was recommended here.
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Find out which process/app launched another process/app
I have a process that when I kill it (using process explorer), it just comes back after about 30 seconds.
Is there any way to find out which process is restarting the process I am killing (so I can ...
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ZoneAlarm 10 Firewall freezes applications
I have not had any problems with ZoneAlarm 9 Free Firewall, but 10 is a different matter.
Problem
Whenever I open an application requiring internet access, the following happens:
A ZoneAlarm ...
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How kill cp in Linux?
I see in:
ps aux
that exists process like:
cp file.txt /home/file.txt
This file is very big.
I try to kill like:
kill -9 12345
12345 is pid. But without success. What else I can do? What ...
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How can I get Linux to not thrash and just kill processes?
Firefox (and flash) tends to chew up memory at random times, causing my computer to thrash, and it drives me crazy waiting for the oom_killer to kick in and kill processes,[1] while I can't do ...
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bash xterm : redefine “word” for killing word on command line
I want to modify the behaviour of 'backward-kill-word' in xterm command line. I'd like to remove "word" defined as space or / only.
For example, if I type
$ tttt/tt t@tt_ttt/ttt
I will get, after ...
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Trying to kill processes by name, but remains one..why?
I'm trying to kill all my mysqld process. But remains one, why?
javier@javier-mbp:~$ ps aux | grep mysqld
root 913 0.0 0.0 4220 704 ? S 16:11 0:00 /bin/sh ...
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SIGTERM with a keyboard shortcut
I know that inside a terminal, Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut will send a SIGINT signal to the current foreground process. Is there a way to setup a keyboard shortcut for sending SIGTERM or even SIGKILL to ...
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What's the Unix command-line symbol for “the PID of the last suspended process”?
In an interactive console like irb, sometimes something will go wrong and the console becomes unresponsive. One solution is to suspend the process, then kill it.
To suspend the process, I can press ...
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Kill background processes started by bash script
I'd like to run the CoffeeScript and the Sass compilers in the background, and be able to kill them both at once. I have a bash script start, like this:
coffee --watch -o assets/ -c src/ &
sass ...
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how to kill one tab of google chrome using pid
I want to close one tab of chrome. I tried killing the pid of the tab, but the tab doesn't close instead says "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, reload or go ...
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How to prevent a process from executing in bash
The following command has been entered:
sleep 12h; nuke-russia
It was entered on one of the Debian's ttys. I would like to cancel the sleep without nuking anything. I don't want the nuke command to ...
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Simulate keyboard interrupt to gracefully exit task in Windows?
I have a process that doesn't behave when I do a taskkill -f, but the only option taskkill gives me is to kill it with -f.
When I have the exe running in the Command Prompt I can hit Ctrl + C twice ...
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Bash operator < , > , | and grep / kill
As an exercise, I wanted to kill a process by command line using basic bash principles but i'm having some errors that i don't understand:
ps -A | grep nautilus | egrep -o '[0-9]{4,5}' | kill
1) It ...
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magic combination
I stopped using the Unix process ctr + z. Then I tried to kill the process and did not work. A friend from school was recommended to use the kill -9 process_id. What is the magic combination?
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What does %1 in “kill %1” mean?
I know that $! stores the pid of the last (background) process, but what does %1 mean? I often see it together with kill and it has the same effect as kill $!. Can someone give me a hint? (Such small ...
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Can not kill vpc.exe in Windows 7
I have a Windows XP virtual machine on my Windows 7 x64 Ultimate machine that I use for testing. Every once in a while when I try and start the vm, nothing happens and I know I have to reboot my ...
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Kill looping audio track?
My Firefox crashed leaving part of an audio track stuck in a loop. How can I kill this audio process without logging out? (I don't know what process to kill)
OS: Linux - Fedora
Apparently the ...
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How to prevent these executables from starting up?
After removing the following executables from starting up, in the near future they reappear again:
DDMService.exe: Re-enabled when visiting a DivX video online.
DivXUpdate.exe: Re-enabled when ...
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Kill xserver from command line (init 3/5 does not work)
I'm running Linux Mint 10, although I've had this same issue with other variants of Linux. I've been told/found while researching that if the X server hangs or otherwise errors, one can drop to a root ...
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How to kill same group process
How to kill a process initiated by another user, who is in same group as me?
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script to kill process with specific character
I have a command that outputs as follows:
# lostjobs
user1 12983 1 0 Feb04 ? 00:00:00 dbr UT:msmenu
user1 18253 1 0 Feb09 ? 00:00:00 dbr UT:msmenu
user2 22337 1 0 ...
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Cannot end Windows 7 process, even tried pskill
I am having a problem where processes are hanging and absolutely refuse to die. I have tried using the task manager and PSKILL from the console (with admin rights) and while the program will state ...
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RDC From Windows XP to Windows 7 Successful, Local Login Fails - How to Fix or Kill the RDC Process?
I successfully connected over RDC from a Win XP machine to a Win 7 machine. I then closed the RDC window. After that, I tried to log on locally to the Win 7 machine. All I get is a black screen with a ...
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kill a hung xterm
I used to rlogin/telnet a server and use xterm& to create several xterm sessions. But from time to time, the xterm may hang there and not responding at all(window can't be closed), leaving just a ...
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Killing a process on a Windows machine
How can I kill processes on a Windows machine? Ctrl + Alt + Del only works for the whole system, but I need it for a single process.
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Kill bash processes “nicely”
I'm trying to avoid kill -9 for the reasons described in the Useless Use of Kill -9 form letter. Is this function sufficient, or do I need to kill the kill processes after a timeout or take care of ...
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How to kill a process with name having spaces?
A process with name=example can be killed by
killall -9 example
How to kill multiple instances of following command which contain spaces?
"valgrind --tool=lackey ...
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How to kill process that is dead but listening?
I'm developing an app that listens on port 3000. Apparently there's an instance of it still listening to the port because whenever I start it, it can't create a listener (C#, TcpListener, but that's ...
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How to stop a bat process on Windows?
I have BAT file running in background on Windows which lasts about ten minutes. Now I want to stop it while it's running, but I can't find its name in the process-list in the task manager. So how can ...
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How do I find and kill remote processes in Linux?
I am developing a daemon that is acting up and I am now unable to create any new processes (ie. I cannot start a new process to kill the other rogue processes). So, I need to be able to kill the ...
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When I run /usr/bin/time my_program, how to kill my_program?
I want to check how long time my program takes. Then I using "/usr/bin/time my_program". When it takes more than 5 seconds, I want to kill it. I tried "kill -9 TIME_S_PID", time is killed, but ...
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How do I kill an unattended scheduled task? (Windows)
I have a runaway windows task, if I were running it as a logged in user I would use Process Explorer (procexpe.exe) and look for the related cmd.exe and kill it there, but this one is running with a ...
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Is there ctrl-c command in cygwin?
I have a process running in cygwin and using a port. When I kill the process in another cygwin window by issuing command:
kill -9 PID or /bin/kill -f PID
I can see the process got terminated. ...
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Loop: Start program and kill after time out
for debugging reasons I want to spot one of those bugs showing up just occasionally. Therefore I want to code a while loop in the shell
starting the program (if it will segfault => that's what I ...
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How to kill a process on Mac OS X that's “trying to exit” (E)?
On Mac OS X 10.6 I sometimes get processes that show up in "ps" as "E", which the man page says means they're "trying to exit", but they won't. "kill -9" doesn't work, neither does waiting. Is there ...
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How to kill all processes in Linux
I want to kill all processes on my computer. Which command can I use to do so?
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How to enable ctrl-alt-backspace using console?
How do I enable ctrl-alt-backspace using console? I have problems with X.org and often server gets stuck with black screen. I'm trying to solve this issue, but I can't find a way to kill X. ...
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Gnome - Kill X Windows
I just installed Arch Linux with Gnome and gdm is set to boot into gnome as soon as it boots.
But I realized that the barebone gnome package that I installed doesn't include a terminal or a text ...
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how to kill process in Mac OS X and not have it restart on its own
When I run sudo kill -9 [PID] with the proper process ID, the process stops but then is restarted and has a new PID. I'm trying to kill the mysqld process.
How can I mimic the Activity Monitor in ...
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On Linux and Mac OS X, is there a kill or killall command that can let the app ask for unsaved document before exiting?
On Linux and Mac OS X, is there a kill or killall command that can let the app ask for unsaved document before exiting, kind of like asking the app to quit, or clicking on the "close" button of the ...
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How do I kill a process by its name in Linux?
I have a process with the name bla, and I want to kill it by its name.
When I run ps aux | grep "bla", I get 2 entries:
process bla and
blablablab
How do I filter it out?
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Hot to let 'kill' ignore processes that are not alive
How to tell the kill command to ignore processes if that process is not alive?
For example: 3453 is an alive process but 44534 is not.
kill -9 3453 44534
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Killing all processes of current user
user@host$ killall -9 -u user
Will it definitely kill all processes owned by user (including forkbombs)?
No new processes is spawned to user from other users.
No user's processes are in D-sleep and ...
