kill Command-R&D26012012

kill Command

This command is used to kill a running process on the server. You need to process id to execute the kill command. Consider you run " pstree -p " which will list all the process with its respective process id. To kill a particular process use the command " kill ".

Example:

root@server [~]$ kill 27209

or

root@server [~]$ kill -9 27209

The above command will kill the process id 27209.