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A computer method refers to a computer program having a unique method identification or additionally known as PID. Basically, on the Linux operating system, a method could also be running within the background, foreground or could also be in a suspended state. it’d attainable that on Linux, the OS shell may not return the prompt to the end-user unless this method that’s running is finished. As a result, several processes that take a considerable amount of your time to execute and keep you from utilizing the console till the method is finished running.<\/p>\n

For Linux users the most common problem that arises is to kill or background a method so different tasks are conducted on the system. so as to kill a method, a signal has to be sent using the Linux kill command.<\/p>\n

Following are the steps that show using \u201ckill\u201d command how to kill a Linux process ?<\/p>\n

Step 1:<\/strong> For the running process on your system which you want to kill enter the below Linux command to get the PID.<\/p>\n

ps myProcess<\/pre>\n
Once you enter the above command it’ll come back with one thing the same as the following:<\/p>\n
PID TTY TIME CMD\r\n1234 dz07 0:50 edit myBook\r\n1235 dz07 0:47 -csh<\/pre>\n
Step 2:<\/strong> As the first process mentioned in the example above, enter the following Linux kill command to terminate :<\/p>\n
To terminate the second active process enter the following command:<\/p>\n
kill -1 1235<\/pre>\n
Step 3:<\/strong> It might happen in some case the kill -1 does not work, for these you need to use the -9 argument to clear the process from your system. Use the command as follow:<\/p>\n
kill -9 1234\r\n\r\nkill -9 1235<\/pre>\n
Step 4:<\/strong> Instead by using the killall command you can also kill all the instances of a given process . Enter the command as shown below:<\/p>\n
killall <pname><\/pre>\n
<pname> refer to the process name.<\/pre>\n
As it requires root access to the server, this tutorial is applicable only on VPS or a Dedicated Server, .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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