Comments on: Kill process in Linux or terminate a process in UNIX or Linux systems

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:43 +0000

in a shell, press strg+c to stop (e.g. if you started an extraction that should have been started as root, but you started it as user)

By: sathiyanarayanan

sathiyanarayanan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:51:54 +0000

Hi Friends i know how to kill process , but -9 option for what purpose we are using , how to clear zombie process in process tables ?

By: Kaja

Kaja — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:34:49 +0000

This so helpful! Thank you :). I used to use command sudo killall skype and wondering why it did not work haha.

By: sathiyanarayanan

sathiyanarayanan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:14:23 +0000

For what purpose we use -9 option in kill command , what is the difference between kill and kill -9 .

By: Reji

Reji — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:24:38 +0000

Very nice site.,great explanation

By: rajendra pandey

rajendra pandey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:17:14 +0000

i wanted to know could i use kill -9 -1 command
To kill the Process ID in UNIX

By: abhishek dilliwal

abhishek dilliwal — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:11:49 +0000

great compilation buddy it helped… its man pages in simple way… thanks anyways

By: Soundarapandian

Soundarapandian — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:47:03 +0000

Thank You.Very useful :)

By: kashyap

kashyap — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:31:39 +0000

use rpm -e

By: Russel

Russel — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:08:12 +0000

I was having this same problem. I know you must have use the man and got frustrated after “killall -o 1d” didn’t work. It turns out that the important thing that we missed was that TIME must be a string. In other words …. “killall -o 1.0d”
That works .

By: Rohit

Rohit — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:14:13 +0000

Hello i not able to get the PID of the process which i need to kill.
I used pidof (process name),ps -A ,top command but i not got pid of the process

By: LA

LA — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:51:58 +0000

Can anyone tell me how to kill users who are logged into the terminal (I.E.: tty), I currently show eight users logged in and there is only one profile besides root. There should not be eight users. I have one terminal open. Thanks for your help.

By: Abcdef Genie

Abcdef Genie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:58:23 +0000

Yessss. Finally got all my 40 apache2 processes to kill themselves. :) Thanks.

By: mocca

mocca — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:02:18 +0000

what is the differences between unix process and signal?
can you give an example please..

By: robby

robby — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:39:42 +0000

thanks mathew for pstree -p |grep process_name

By: Vamsi

Vamsi — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:02:27 +0000

Nixcraft rocks :D

By: Ilias

Ilias — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:37:45 +0000

Hello!

Anyone knows how to kill all the processes from a specific username from TOP command? Usually you have to indicate the PID, but i would like to kill all the PIDs from a user.

Thanks!
Ilias

By: kavya

kavya — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:35:05 +0000

use top command it will list the running processes dynamically then press “K” it will ask for process ID(PID) so enter the PID of the process you want to kill.

By: vadivel

vadivel — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:20:09 +0000

hai,
i am first time using linux,please tell me all the commands for linux and main usage for current process for killing.

By: Ankit Anant

Ankit Anant — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:27:01 +0000

Please try to kill forcefully as:
$kill -9 20073