Top "Kill" questions

Kill detached screen session

I learned from somewhere a detached screen can be killed by screen -X -S [session # you want to kill] kill …

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How to kill a process on a port on ubuntu

I am trying to kill a process in the command line for a specific port in ubuntu. If I run …

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Is there any way to kill a Thread?

Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.?

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What killed my process and why?

My application runs as a background process on Linux. It is currently started at the command line in a Terminal …

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How can I stop a running MySQL query?

I connect to mysql from my Linux shell. Every now and then I run a SELECT query that is too …

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How to kill all processes matching a name?

Say I want to kill every process containing the word amarok. I can print out the commands I want to …

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Kill process by name?

I'm trying to kill a process (specifically iChat). On the command line, I use these commands: ps -A | grep iChat …

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How to kill a child process by the parent process?

I create a child process using a fork(). How can the parent process kill the child process if the child …

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How do I kill a process using Vb.NET or C#?

I have a scenario where I have to check whether user has already opened Microsoft Word. If he has, then …

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linux: kill background task

How do I kill the last spawned background task in linux? Example: doSomething doAnotherThing doB & doC doD #kill doB ????

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