Kill Usage
kill -HUP PID kill -TERM PID kill -KILL PID (I did not write this, I just found it and posted it here for my own reference.) Why does everyone jump straight to -9? DO NOT USE -9 AS YOUR FIRST KILL SIGNAL. Try a nice friendly -HUP … perhaps a little stronger -TERM. If, for some reason, these don’t work, knock a little louder with -KILL (ie: -9), but don’t whine if something else gets hosed due to the strong signal (not to scare anyone, it’s unlikely that anything critical is happening anyway, any more than just writing a file–… Continue Reading