Comments on: How to Kill a Process in Linux from Command Line

By: Paruchuri Ravi Teja

Paruchuri Ravi Teja — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 04:45:01 +0000

In reply to Ismael.

I think it has a master and working process. Without killing the master you can’t kill the process. The same problem happens with nginx.

By: James

James — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 10:05:27 +0000

How do I kill a process that freezes everything so I can’t open a terminal?

By: as

as — Thu, 02 May 2019 05:33:19 +0000

Kill isn't for kill processes. Kill is for send signals to other processes. And no, there is no relationship between uptime and the kill/pkill/etc commands. Most software has a standard start/stop procedure, some of them use kill, but others not.

By: Ismael

Ismael — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:04:32 +0000

In reply to oke deh. The kill PID you are using is for the grep issued, just do this to get the PID.

# ps -afe|grep vn[c]

That will return only PID for VNC and the just issue the kill PID

By: raghu

raghu — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:05:55 +0000

In reply to oke deh.

just use kill 19784