Kill
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[[kill]] by itself will cause a process to try to finish what it's doing and save it's state before actually stopping the process, if you pass it the -9 option it will instead kill a process immediately and without waiting or saving any state/information. The [[HUP]] flag will cause the process to re-read it's configuration file (basically a restarting of the process). | [[kill]] by itself will cause a process to try to finish what it's doing and save it's state before actually stopping the process, if you pass it the -9 option it will instead kill a process immediately and without waiting or saving any state/information. The [[HUP]] flag will cause the process to re-read it's configuration file (basically a restarting of the process). | ||
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| + | -1 HUP; be careful with this, if used as root, this goes to ALL processes. | ||
| + | -HUP the same as -1 | ||
| + | -6 abort, like doing a control-C | ||
| + | -9 uninterruptible kill -- stop the process NOW | ||
| + | -15 kill politely (save changes, stop when done) | ||
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See also [[skill]] | See also [[skill]] | ||
[[Category:System Commands]] | [[Category:System Commands]] | ||
Revision as of 13:33, 16 April 2006
kill -- surprise -- kills processes. You must supply a pid. If you want to kill a process by name, look at pkill or killall.
kill by itself will cause a process to try to finish what it's doing and save it's state before actually stopping the process, if you pass it the -9 option it will instead kill a process immediately and without waiting or saving any state/information. The HUP flag will cause the process to re-read it's configuration file (basically a restarting of the process).
Flags
-1 HUP; be careful with this, if used as root, this goes to ALL processes. -HUP the same as -1 -6 abort, like doing a control-C -9 uninterruptible kill -- stop the process NOW -15 kill politely (save changes, stop when done)
See also skill
