Questions tagged [kill]
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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How to stop a process in Terminal [duplicate]
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Ending a process in unix instead of interrupting it
When I task in Terminal, such as ping blah.com, how do I then stop this task (other than closing the Terminal window. In ...
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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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How do I kill a 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 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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How do you find the parent process of a zombie process?
How do you find the parent process of zombie processes?
When the child process is something where the parent is not entirely obvious...
Is there some way to list processes in tree format or ...
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Why sometimes Windows cannot kill a process?
Right now I'm trying to Run/Debug my application in Visual Studio, but it cannot create it because the last instance of the app.vshost.exe is still running. Then, by using the Task Manager I'm trying ...
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On Windows, how can I gracefully ask a running program to terminate?
On Unix or Linux, it's easy to gracefully ask a running application to terminate: you send it the SIGTERM signal. If its process ID is 1234, you can simply run kill 1234 or kill -s TERM 1234 or kill ...
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Kill a process with a specific "Command Line" from command line
Is there a command line utility that kills all processes with a specific command line?
E.g. kill all processes named "java.exe" with a command line that contains "-jar selenium-server.jar". This is ...
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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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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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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 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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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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Bash Man Page: kill <pid> vs kill -9 <pid>
My man page does not document the difference between
kill <pid>
and
kill -9 <pid>
Since these do different things why is the -9 not documented in the kill manpage? I thought maybe it ...
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Terminate program that has taken over the screen
I've been using Windows forever, but one thing that has annoyed me is how hard it is to terminate misbehaving full-screen applications. In Linux, I can just switch over to terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and ...
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How to kill a process started with a different user without being root or sudoer?
in a Linux environment, I need to kill a process which has been started by user2 if I am user1 without being sudoers or using root.
Do you know if there is a way of setting that when launching the ...
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How to prevent currently running Linux task to be killed after logout from SSH?
I have a computational task running for a few days on a linux server via SSH connection. It is not on the background, so the SSH connection is under hold of the task.
I want to restart the local ...
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kicking / logging out remote windows users?
I'd like to have something akin to a unix "who" and an option to kick out RDP sessions that are not supposed to be there (i.e. using up the limited number of connections). This is for a win2003 server ...
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How to kill a task that is "lacking an instance"?
Spotify first killed itself but "something of it" kept lingering which was detectable as a task with PID 8664 and judging from the fact that RAM usage kept changing from time to time - it "did ...
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Kill the currently active window with a keyboard shortcut
How can I kill the currently active window with a command or keyboard shortcut?
Alt+F4 closes a window, but first it will wait for the program to respond. Depending on the application, this may take ...
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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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Restart process on linux by its pidn number with kill command, how?
Well, I want to be able to restart processes on linux and so I looked into kill manpages for that. Apparently kill -l would list all the signals I could send to a process to do what I need, which are:...
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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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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 kill suspended processes in Windows 10
I have found tons of arma3.exe processes in Task Manager on Windows 10. They all have status "Suspended". When I try to kill them, I get the message "Access Denied".
I tried to ...
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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 ? 00:00:...
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How to overcome Access Denied when killing process in Windows? [duplicate]
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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killall shenanigans
So I was sitting around wondering what would happen if I typed:
sudo killall -u root
...aaaaaand now the OS will not load. How do I fix this without just doing a reinstall?
I'm not super worried ...
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Good, lightweight GUI-based process monitor for Linux [closed]
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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How to kill all processes returned by pgrep
I need to kill a few Python processes. I can get a list of the process numbers using pgrep python, but how can I kill them all at once instead of killing one by one?
I'm looking for something like:
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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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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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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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Killing task by name - start menu shortcut
I have a problem with a specific application that I am executing. The application is full-screen in the foreground.
About once per day, it hangs. When it does, I can only open start menu. I cannot ...
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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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After-the-fact remote nohup with tcsh
I have a tcsh instance in an xterm that is running a long-term (weeks?) process. The Xvnc server it's running under went out in the weeds; it's consuming 100% CPU and is unresponsive. (This is a ...
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kill -9 programs but they still hang on
I tried to kill all my background jobs submit earlier under KUbuntu by
kill -9 $(jobs -p)
Although this command immediately gave the message like
[1] Killed myjob1
[2] Killed ...
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kill all processes of a user except a few in linux
I was running some processes under a screen session on a remote server. When I tried to kill all those processes by:
pkill -U tim
all my processes are killed including those I don't want to kill (i....
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Killing rsync softly
Is there a way of tell rsync to stop whenever possible in a clean way? Two options:
tell rsync to stop transfering the current file, clean any temp file and exit;
or let rsync end the transfer of the ...
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How to monitor and kill a process automatically on windows by process name [closed]
Is there a program or utility to monitor the running process and automatically kill specific processes? My work laptop has a whole bunch of useless crap that I cannot uninstall. Some of these ...
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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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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 ./testcases/kernel/syscalls/waitpid/...
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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 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 - 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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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 think ...
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Un-pause all paused processes osx
In osx it is possible to un-pause a single process with the command:
kill -CONT 1234
Where 1234 is the process id.
Is there a way to un-pause every paused process on the machine?
Why: There is a ...
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When a Python process is killed on OS X, why doesn't it kill the child processes?
I found myself getting very confused a while back by some changes that I found when moving Python scripts from Linux over to OS X...
On Linux, if a Python script has called os.system(), and the ...
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After forced quit, “killall Finder” says “No matching processes…” but PID still exists?
Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns:
"No matching processes belonging to you were found"
Oddly enough, the PID for ...
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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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