Top "Kill" questions

Error when trying to kill processes -- "kill: pid: arguments must be process or job IDs"

I'm trying to kill Sphinx on my server so that I can restart it. I tried using this command to …

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kill a process started with popen

After opening a pipe to a process with popen, is there a way to kill the process that has been …

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programmatically kill a process in vista/windows 7 in C#

I want to kill a process programmatically in vista/windows 7 (I'm not sure if there's significant problems in the implementation …

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How to cleanly shutdown Eclipse from Linux command line?

Is there a way to shutdown Eclipse cleanly from the command line, such that files and workspaces are saved? kill …

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how to use kill SIGUSR2 in bash?

I use iptraf to monitor the network traffic in linux, and the shell command is(make iptraf running in background): …

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What happens if you kill a long-running alter query?

What happens if you kill a long-running alter query? Will the alter query simply revert? How long could that take (…

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how do I get the process list in Python?

How do I get a process list of all running processes from Python, on Unix, containing then name of the …

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SIGTERM unable to kill process

I have a single-threaded process which is not dying on kill -TERM. The process signal mask does not show that …

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Check if Python Script is already running

i would like my Python script to check, if it is already running and if yes, kill the old process. …

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When a parent process is killed by "kill -9", will subprocess also be killed?

One of my colleague told me this morning, when he killed supervisord by "kill -9", the subprocesses of supervisord is …

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