{"id":2125,"date":"2020-12-10T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2020-12-10T07:02:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:02:11","slug":"to-kill-a-process-end-processes-with-kill-pkill-killall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtono.com\/community\/knowledgebase\/to-kill-a-process-end-processes-with-kill-pkill-killall\/","title":{"rendered":"To Kill A Process: End processes with kill, pkill & killall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Programs or individual processes can no longer be terminated under certain circumstances, for example, crashes. On Linux, however, the kill family offers a last resort for killing processes. This avoids a system restart.
Solution: If you have identified a process that can no longer be terminated in the normal way, then you must force it to be terminated. The command for this is kill quite vividly. In principle the syntax is quite simple: kill or kill -9 . The latter cannot be blocked. That means the process will be mercilessly shot down. You can also send several processes into data nirvana at the same time: kill .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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