Questions tagged [kill]
kill - Send a specified signal to a process or process group.
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Killing a process with ruser root and euser user
I'm learning linux permissions and confused about the permissions for killing a process. First, from kill(2) manpage: For a process to have permission to send a signal it must either be privileged (...
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Linux kill command returns "No such process"
In the below shell script I have list of process IDs which need to be killed. When killing a process I am getting kill: 1234567: no such process error even after checking if the process id existence ...
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Killing a process PID starts a new process instead
I have a running process on localhost on port 5000. I have tried kill - 9 <PID> which it works for that PID but it starts a new process with a new PID instead. What's the issue here? I'll put ...
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Linux kernel bug - How do you kill a process that won't die?
How do I kill a process that cannot be killed? user@kubuntu22:~$ ps -ef |grep smbd nobody 3532354 1 0 16:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd --foreground --no-process-group user@kubuntu22:~$ ...
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How to send SIGQUIT or SIGINT using bash shell to a shell script
According to BASH manual page, When Bash receives a SIGINT, it breaks out of any executing loops. In all cases, Bash ignores SIGQUIT. So if there was a shell script, started from bash shell, to ...
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Is there an easy way to kill all other ssh session by me(user) on the server, but keep the current ssh session through command line?
For example, if I ssh to the server at multiple office computer, how can I conveniently kill those ssh at home when I ssh to the server machine?
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A few potential race conditions with signals and PIDs
I'm aware that because of PID-reuse on Unix-like kernels, signals can be delivered to the wrong process if they are sent after the PID has already been reaped. Discussion of what follows will probably ...
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How can I make bluetoothctl quit running?
I have been experimenting with bluetoothctl and blueman. I have closed the window of blueman. I have also typed quit in bluetoothctl's command line interface. I have also run systemctl stop bluetooth. ...
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Run a few identical process and then kill one of them
Problem: Need to run several process, especially it will be “tail -f log.log >> wrile_log.log” proces to collect log. Commands can be run at the different time for same log file. This is not ...
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What is the correct way to unconditionally kill a process?
I have two hotkeys for interactively looking up and killing a process on Linux: bindsym $mod+k exec --no-startup-id \ "ps axo pid,cmd | sed 1d | dmenu -i -l 20 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill&...
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"The rest of the line" How setup ssh client console to show all (/px aux) java process line to know the name of the java file?
I have 3 java process running on my host - i access the host by a ssh client. Some one of that process freezed and i need kill that pid process to re-start it I know the name of the file, but i dont ...
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Script/Daemon to kill specific resource-consuming tools?
I'm working on a SGE linux cluster and beginners often run memory/resource consuming tools on the login node instead of using qsub or qlogin ( https://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman1/...
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Operation referenced in sudoers still fails on kill command
I what to be able to restart ConnMan from within Node-RED. That service runs with its own user nodered. When I SSH into the device as the nodered user and type nodered@pi:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/connman ...
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How can I change the name an executable presents itself to the system
Forgot to mention, running on Suse Tumbleweed, Desktop is KDE Plasma. I have in my bin directory a symbolic link to mpv, $ ls -l bin/Play lrwxrwxrwx 1 boffi users 12 Feb 11 12:33 bin/Play -> /usr/...
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When does a hup signal affect the parent process? [duplicate]
If I run ./script.sh &, where script is the following: #!/bin/bash echo "hello" sleep 30 echo "hello again" sleep 30 touch /root/foo.txt Then I use ps au, to identify the "...