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Started by Crop, Aug 14 2007 05:55 AM

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Crop
Posted 14 August 2007 - 05:55 AM

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For killing zombie and rogue processes which kill should I use? What does kill -9 mean?

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Posted 14 August 2007 - 10:00 AM

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Try just using 'kill 1 <pid>' before using 9

-9 means "absolute kill signal" which forces the kernel to stop executing the process. It actually sends the process's resources to /dev/null.

The most common kill signals are 1, 2, 3, 15, and 9.
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