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Why “jobs -p | kill -n 15” doesn't work?

I'm very new to Linux. And as a matter of fact I use Cygwin now and not Linux itself. I'm trying to install RVM (Ruby Version Manager). I was doing rm -r ./.rvm -i command. I wanted to remove .rvm ...
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linux/solaris kill many proccess with one command

Is it possible to kill all find process with one command? I do not want to kill each process as kill -9 25295 , kill -9 11994 , etc.. Rather, what I want is a simple way or command that kill all find ...
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ps and top show a different command name then what pkill and pgrep sees

Often times I want to kill process that I believe has changed its command name (I think through setproctitle() or something similar). Apparent pkill, pgrep, and friends do not read the new command ...
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Kill a process and force it to return 0 in Linux?

In the Linux environment, how can I send a kill signal to a process, while making sure that the exit code returned from that process is 0? Would I have to do some fancy GDB magic for this, or is there ...
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Kill xfs_io processes

I have an EC2 instance running CentOS 5.6 86_64. I use xfs_freeze to freeze/thaw a file system before taking a snapshot. Normally this works great, but today it stopped working - the freeze operation ...
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How can I know which are my rights [closed]

On a fedora server, I have access to the cli. On that server I have a webapp which generates some pdf files using a php library through some ajax request. The problem is that one of the apache ...
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node.js process won't die on unhandled exception

Running the following server.js: cluster(app) .use(cluster.logger(path_to_logs)) .use(cluster.stats()) .use(cluster.pidfiles(path_to_pids)) .use(cluster.cli()) ...
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UNIX permissions to allow group users to kill each others' processes

Let's say we have a group (dev) which has many users and a shared development directory with g+rwx permissions on all contained files. Is this setup sufficient so that any dev user can kill a process ...
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Cant kill process on Windows Server 2008!! - Thread in Wait:Executive State

I hope someone can help me with our issue we are having. We have a major issue with a process that we can not kill and the only way to get rid of the process is to reboot the machine. I have tried ...
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Close a process without psKill and force?

I have a bunch of processes on a server that I want to update the exes regurlary. But before update they must be closed and I use PsKill for that in a bat-file. It works but I seek a way to only send ...
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how to kill a zombie process?

I got a two processes during the network drive failure. 1 D 0 1199 1 0 80 0 - 19101 wait_o pts/21 00:00:01 rsync 1 Z 0 1226 1199 0 80 0 - 0 exit pts/21 00:00:00 rsync ...
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What can be used to prevent the termination/killing of a process, even by the root user?

Is there a security framework or general tool that can be used to ensure that a certain process started at boot in Linux cannot be terminated by any user or other process, including the root user?
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With Powershell, how can I get the id of a process owned by a specific user?

Using Powershell, I want to do the equivalent of Unix ps -auxc | grep Emacs kill -9 364 (Assuming 365 was the pid the first command told me.) How do I do that? I find it incredibly hard to get ...
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Cannot kill process in Linux: httpd -k start

I cannot kill the following process: 0.0 1620 17462 /home/mertnuhoglu/webapps/django/apache2/bin/httpd -k start I give kill command but httpd instance still runs: [mertnuhoglu@web145 dj02]$ kill ...
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What happens when you kill a process that has database tables locked?

Trying to kill a process that running a MySQL database backup, and has the tables locked. What will happen if I kill the process?
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How do I kill processes older than “t”?

First, yes I have seen this question: http://serverfault.com/q/71360/14428 The answers there are incorrect and do not work. I have voted and commented accordingly. The processes I want to kill look ...
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Kill a process run by a specific user

Let's say that I have several users running ''ruby'' processes simultaneously. How do I write a shell command to kill the ''ruby'' process of one particular user? (I'm on CentOS 5.5.)
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how is the windows kill process works?

I'm unfamiliar with how processes are killed in Windows. In Linux, a "warm" kill sends a signal (15) and the process can handle by instantiating a signal handler it and a cold kill sends signal (9) ...
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How exactly do i find the a specific samba users process id, so that i can kill it

if for example i have a word document open on a winxp machine via a samba connection, then what command at linux level can i use to find what processes have the file open, so i can kill them, also how ...
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order of killing parent and child processes

It seems to me killing either of parent and child processes will not affect the other. So if want to kill a parent process and all its child processes, I guess I have to kill them one by one. I ...
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kill both parent and child processes

I am running a bash script as a background job. The bash script calls a time-consuming executable. If I am not wrong, the running of the bash script is the parent process and the running of the ...
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Gracefully stop a Windows process remotely

Does anyone know how to gracefully stop a Windows process remotely on Windows XP Professional machines (i.e. there the remote machines are running Windows XP Professional)? The pskill utility seems ...
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How to kill an “exiting” process on OS X (state = E)

I have a process on my Mac OS X system which is in state E ("The process is trying to exit."): % ps auwwwxc | grep -si JavaApplicationS sbwoodside 84547 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? E ...
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How to kill a <defunct> process with parent 1

I am running Bacula on a RedHat box. From time to time, the storage daemon bacula-sd stops working and becomes <defunct>. [root@backup ~]# ps -ef | grep defunct | more root 4801 29261 0 ...
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Way to kill frozen application

I have an application that freezes. I can't terminate it with ^C, so I have to do following: $ ./myapp ^C^Z [1]+ Stopped ./myapp $ pgrep -lf myapp 18479 bash ./myapp $ kill -9 18479 ...
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Find (and kill) old processes

Basically I need to be able scan the process tree and find processes that match a certain name and started running more than a week a go. Once I have them, I need to kill them. All the processes are ...
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Bash snippet for killing a process until it's dead?

I'm trying to write a robust bash script, and in it I create a background process. At the end of the script, I want to kill it. I have it's PID. I was thinking of somthing like this while [[ ps ef ...
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How do you kill a process tree in linux? [closed]

Sometimes, sending a SIGTERM to a process will cause it to send SIGTERM to all its child processes. However, sometimes this doesn't work. Is there a command or a utility that will allow me to kill a ...
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PostgreSQL processes and the signals to which they respond

For PostgreSQL 8.3 and later, what are the processes that make up the server and that respond to a query? What signals do the various processes respond to and what effect do the signals have? What ...
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Un-killable user processes in Linux?

I use sshfs (fusermount) to connect remote mountpoints. When I forget to unmount them using... fusermount -u /REMOTE ...all processes which used the mountpoints hang. I try to kill them with ...