Top "Kill" questions

How to kill a nohup process?

I executed the following command $ nohup ./tests.run.pl 0 & now when I try to kill it (and the executions …

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How to terminate process using VBScript

I have this VBScript code to terminate one process Const strComputer = "." Dim objWMIService, colProcessList Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=…

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Killing a defunct process on UNIX system

I have a defunct process on my system: abc 22093 19508 0 23:29 pts/4 00:00:00 grep ProcA abc 31756 1 0 Dec08 ? 00:00:00 [ProcA_my_collect] <defunct> …

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shell script to kill the process listening on port 3000?

I want to define a bash alias named kill3000 to automate the following task: $ lsof -i:3000 COMMAND PID USER FD …

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Opening/Closing application via .bat file [Windows]

Good Day, I have a .bat file that run a specific application then after 5 seconds it will close/kill it. …

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Ensuring subprocesses are dead on exiting Python program

Is there a way to ensure all created subprocess are dead at exit time of a Python program? By subprocess …

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How is it possible that kill -9 for a process on Linux has no effect?

I'm writing a plugin to highlight text strings automatically as you visit a web site. It's like the highlight search …

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What does `kill -0 $pid` in a shell script do?

Basically, what signal does '0' represent, because here I see SIGNAL numbers starting from 1.

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How to kill process inside container? Docker top command

I have simple example from official guide at docker website. I run the following: sudo docker run -d ubuntu:latest /…

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The GNU screen is unresponsive, seems blocked

GNU Screen seems to freeze. Unable to enter user input. I was using GNU screen and when I pressed the …

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