You should do the default kill (-TERM), if this does not work, kill -HUP, then kill -SYS, and only if the process blocks them all do a kill -9 (-KILL).
Dependent on your OS(?) there are more efficient ways, for example
:confused:
I have a process which was schedule to run from 8am - 6pm daily. The scripts will search & run the commands that i was predefined in the database. Ususally, there were about 6-7 jobs for each submission and each job takes about 1-2 hrs and running one by one. And, I have a cron job... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Please let us know of any possiblity of identifying and killing unix proces invoked externally (by an external tool which does not create a session). 'who' command gives idle time of sessions. But what we are looking for is idle time of a process. 'ps' command gives the elapsed/running... (1 Reply)
I need a simple line to run from apple remote desktop's Unix terminal on multiple different machines to see if Microsoft Entourage is running and kill it.. I imagine this could be done with a ps auxwww and grab the second field, (PID) put it into a variable and do a kill $variable using awk, but... (5 Replies)
Dear Friends ,
I am using DB2 database in AIX 5.3 server . In my server some IDLE process are generated after several times which I need to kill it manually each and every time .
The process I query like following :
root@bagpuss $ ps auxw|sort -r +3|head -10
USER PID %CPU %MEM ... (3 Replies)
I have process1 running on one machine and generating some log file. Now another process which can be launched on any machine wants to know if process1 is running or not and also in case it is running it wants to stream the logs file generated by process1 on terminal from which process2 is... (2 Replies)
Hi,
Do anybody experience to write a bash script in order to kill a specific process (java) after certain time of running?
eg.
java java.jar task_run.txt
I will run a java program (java.jar) which will run a long list of process (task_run.txt) one by one.
I plan to terminate the java... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I need a script that can automatically kill all processes named "webrepn" and "webrebw" if idle for more than 30 minutes.
Then I will have a Cron Job to run the script every night or 2-3 times a day depends on how this script helps.
Right now, I run "ps -ef | grep webrebn" and "kill -9... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have multiple scripts (vlc1, vlc2,...vlc5) and as I do not know how to run them as upstart processes, I entered my script links into rc.local file.
Here is the sample one for process vlc1:
$ nano /etc/rc.local
added below line into rc.local
/var/bin/./vlc1 &
Port nr of vlc1... (7 Replies)
All,
1.What is the unix comand used for all current running process (Including All current running processes Parent ->child->subchild process)
2.If child and subchild processes are running then what is the unix command to kill parent and its all child subchild processes in UNIX.
Kindly... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: skp
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
kill
KILL(1) Linux User's Manual KILL(1)NAME
kill - send a signal to a process
SYNOPSIS
kill [ -signal | -s signal ] pid ...
kill [ -L | -V, --version ]
kill -l [ signal ]
DESCRIPTION
The default signal for kill is TERM. Use -l or -L to list available signals. Particularly useful signals include HUP, INT, KILL, STOP,
CONT, and 0. Alternate signals may be specified in three ways: -9 -SIGKILL -KILL. Negative PID values may be used to choose whole process
groups; see the PGID column in ps command output. A PID of -1 is special; it indicates all processes except the kill process itself and
init.
SIGNALS
The signals listed below may be available for use with kill. When known constant, numbers and default behavior are shown.
Name Num Action Description
0 0 n/a exit code indicates if a signal may be sent
ALRM 14 exit
HUP 1 exit
INT 2 exit
KILL 9 exit cannot be blocked
PIPE 13 exit
POLL exit
PROF exit
TERM 15 exit
USR1 exit
USR2 exit
VTALRM exit
STKFLT exit might not be implemented
PWR ignore might exit on some systems
WINCH ignore
CHLD ignore
URG ignore
TSTP stop might interact with the shell
TTIN stop might interact with the shell
TTOU stop might interact with the shell
STOP stop cannot be blocked
CONT restart continue if stopped, otherwise ignore
ABRT 6 core
FPE 8 core
ILL 4 core
QUIT 3 core
SEGV 11 core
TRAP 5 core
SYS core might not be implemented
EMT core might not be implemented
BUS core core dump might fail
XCPU core core dump might fail
XFSZ core core dump might fail
NOTES
Your shell (command line interpreter) may have a built-in kill command. You may need to run the command described here as /bin/kill to
solve the conflict.
EXAMPLES
kill -9 -1
Kill all processes you can kill.
kill -l 11
Translate number 11 into a signal name.
kill -L
List the available signal choices in a nice table.
kill 123 543 2341 3453
Send the default signal, SIGTERM, to all those processes.
SEE ALSO pkill(1), skill(1), kill(2), renice(1), nice(1), signal(7), killall(1).
STANDARDS
This command meets appropriate standards. The -L flag is Linux-specific.
AUTHOR
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote kill in 1999 to replace a bsdutils one that was not standards compliant. The util-linux one
might also work correctly.
Please send bug reports to <procps-feedback@lists.sf.net>
Linux November 21, 1999 KILL(1)