kill is a UNIX/Linux command to signal a process, by default with a signal to terminate the process. It can also be used to force a process to quit immediately without cleanly exiting or to tell a process to take some action (e.g. to signal a httpd to reread its configuration without restarting).
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My MPC started on its own and the process mpch64.exe was running at 100%, why?
I was working and all of a sudden heard my computer fan spinning extremely fast as if I was playing a 3D intensive game. I checked my processes and quickly discovered the culprit - mpch64.exe. My CPU ...
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How to know which driver or kernel module prevents process to be killed?
Sometimes I have processes which I can't kill. Process Explorer, Task Manager and others say that "Access denied". I was told that this can be because kernel driver has a bug or something.
How to ...
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How to overcome Access Denied when killing process in Windows?
How to kill process which does not want to? I have Access Denied message when trying to kill the process. I know it can be due to device driver waiting and probably this is the reason.
But my ...
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Kill user session if from unknown source
I would like to kill ssh connections to my server if they are from a particular 'office'
Any ideas how I would do this without using ip-tables?
Cheers
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What killed my process?
Been having a problem with application that keeps getting killed. This is running a RHEL5 server. We ran strace against the process and at the end of the trace file I get a bunch of +++ killed by ...
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Ubuntu kill java program started by bash
I've got a problem with killing my Java Program on Ubuntu. I created the following init script:
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: control ...
# Required-Start: $remote_fs ...
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Why can I kill a sudo process on Xubuntu but not Linux Mint? (as a normal user)
I have two computers, one running Xubuntu 12.04, and the other running Linux Mint 14.
On Xubuntu:
$ sudo gedit
in another terminal:
$ kill [pid of the gedit process]
bash: kill: ([pid]) - ...
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What does kill 0 do actually?
In the man page, it says:
0 All processes in the current process group are signaled
And I tried like this:
$ man kill &
[1] 15247
$
[1]+ Stopped man kill
$ kill ...
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taskkill windows command getting hung
I have a few batch files in which I directly call taskkill command to kill running processes (because they interfere with these nightly build scripts). But recently, it seems after some Windows ...
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kill - no process found
when I list my processes I have:
root@adam-ThinkPad-T410:~# ps -e | grep signals
11641 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
11642 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
11643 pts/0 00:00:00 signals
but when I ...
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“appleeventsd” slows down Word + EndNote
I'm writing my doctoral thesis on a Macbook pro using MS Word 2011 and Endnote X6 (Mac Word and Endnote on the newest version).
Word responses really slowly to any input like typing or scrolling, with ...
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OS X - Kill a process after login
I have a process that is most probably set to run by managed preferences on my account after I log in. However, I do no use it at all, so I wanted to know if there is a way to automatically kill the ...
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Kill a process in Unix
When I execute theps -fea | grep ssh-agent command, I get the following output:
tomcat 29057 14086 0 Jan 09 ? 0:00 ssh-agent
oracle 1964 14086 0 Nov 26 ? 0:00 ...
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Can't kill a sleeping process
I don't seem to be able to kill -9 a process which is in an interruptible sleep (S) state:
[root@jupiter ~]# ps -elf | grep yum
4 S root 16790 1 0 75 0 - 73779 - Jan15 ? ...
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Unable to terminate process
I can't terminate some processes. It says "Access denied". I am the ultimate owner of the computer. How can I terminate such processed anyway?
These are not system processes, these are file managers ...
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Force shutdown without checking open process Windows 7
Is there any way to force shutdown without checking or waiting running procceses to terminate. More specifically, i want something like unpluging the socket. Setting the value of WaitTimeToKillApp in ...
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How to kill all processes with the same name?
I want to kill all processes with the same name that belong to a user,
for example:
$ps -u user_1
2345 myapp
2346 myapp
2347 myapp
2348 myapp2
2349 myapp
I want to kill all "myapp" processes that ...
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“Access denied” when trying to end a process on Windows 8
I get "Access denied" when trying to end a process on Windows 8.
From Kill process (windows 8) issues on Stack Overflow, I've read:
The process may have a thread active in kernel mode that is not ...
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How to disable jobs killing when leaving the terminal
When I leave a terminal via Ctrl+D and there are jobs in the background I get There are stopped jobs for the first time, but when I press Ctrl+D again, the jobs get killed.
Can I disable the latter ...
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taskkill - end tasks with window titles ending with a specific string
I need to write a batch program to end all MS office communicator tasks with window titles (usually ending with pattern "- Conversation" .
I tried
taskkill /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq *Conversation" ...
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Why does explorer restart automatically when I kill it with Process.Kill?
If I kill explorer.exe like this:
private static void KillExplorer()
{
var processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("explorer");
Console.Write("Killing Explorer... ");
foreach (var process ...
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Cannot kill the process javaw.exe from Minecraft
I start up Minecraft, close it using Quit game or press the close button and the window closes but not the javaw.exe process and when I try to kill it in the Task manager nothing happens. When I try ...
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Kill program in a bat file
In a command file, startup.cmd, I have something like
start "program.exe"
I would like to do the following:
if running, stop program.exe
start program.exe
I tried
taskkill program.exe
If ...
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(Why) doesn't Fedora properly terminate all processes on shutdown?
I've noticed that with Fedora 17, a shutdown operation (e.g., shutdown -h now) has gotten so much faster (feels like 2 seconds max).
So I'm wondering if running processes are terminated properly? ...
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What signals does OS X send for the Quit and Force Quit commands?
What happens behind the scenes when a user gives a Quit or Force Quit command from outside the target application (e.g. from Activity Monitor)?
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how to prevent a java process from being killed by killall java -9
Whenever I type killall java -9 ,all java process is killed, even if i change the process name.
So Is there an way to protect the java process being killed by 'killall java -9'
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Did pkill -u root on working server
I accidentally did pkill -u root on working machine. None of the root process is working right now. What am I supposed to do?
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Kill ssh session and/or stuck processes
I'm developing with vi over ssh.
My problem is that sometimes I get my ssh connection killed because of my poor wifi connection and previous processes (like "top", "rails c", etc...) are not being ...
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Windows: Fastest way of killing a process running on a specific port
I am going over this process many times. I have to kill a process on a Windows machine and I just know its port.
Normally the steps are as below: Find the PID by looking at the ports (example port ...
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How to kill an invisible process?
I have a program that crashed, its GUI is frozen, and I would like to kill it.
However there is no trace of it among the current processes.
I tried both top and ps -A, but I got nothing.
The ...
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How to kill a process by port on MacOS, a la fuser -k 9000/tcp
On linux I can kill a process knowing only the port it is listening on using fuser -k 9000/tcp, how do I so the same on MacOS?
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Error running bash script - No matching processes
I am trying to kill Xcode by running killall Xcode.app, which works normally when I run it through terminal. However, if I put it into a bash script that I keep on my Desktop called re_xcode, the ...
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how do you alias a program whose name conflicts with a built-in while retaining the built-in under a different name?
In zsh 'kill' is a built-in.
I would like to alias killall to kill, as I use 'killall' more often and aliasing it kill would be more convenient. i would like to retain the ability to use kill, ...
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How to kill all process of a program?
Sometimes I get some problem with Skype or Netbeans. So, when I want to kill all processes of them and restart them the only way I know is to perform
$ ps aux | grep skype
get all process id
...
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Can't kill user process
On a Linux system it seems I can't kill my process I just started. ps -ax output:
6731 pts/1 DLl 0:06 ./main
I tried
kill -9 6731
but it just stays there. I don't have root access. What ...
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How could I kill an instance of cmd.exe that is running a particular batch file?
If I'm running many instances of cmd.exe and only know the name of .bat file one of them executes, could I use taskkill to find and kill exact cmd.exe process?
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How to kill a windows process in a cygwin terminal?
I have a problem regarding how to kill a process in cygwin on windows. I am completely new to cygwin. But i have a task that i simply cant kill. i have tried issuing the following commands:
kill 4568
...
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Linux: close a program with command line (not kill it)
Some applications only allow one running instance (like eclipse, if you want to use the same workspace). So if I log in from another location, I have to kill/close the application that was open when I ...
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Pipe output of awk to kill -9
I'm trying to kill any process that has to do with mysql. I'm piecing together a command, and so far, haven't come up with the right solution. One other consideration, is that the last process will ...
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Unexpected killall behavior
From my understanding of killall name is that it looks up all processes which name is name. So killall killall should lookup and kill itself, so I expected no output. So I'm curious:
Why does it look ...
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Setting ssh to terminate remote process upon disconnection
I have been running some interactive shell scripts on a remote server.
Sometimes the ssh connection is lost, and I want the process on the other machine to die in such condition.
Can I configure ...
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Is reboot the only way to kill a process in “disk wait”?
I occasionally get applications stuck on "disk wait" on FUSE filesystem due to network problem. They take up memory and their window is still around, so after some time I get a number of them which ...
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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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