HOWTO: Kill Processes Without Using “kill”
KInd of confusing, but essentially, you can use the kill command to tell processes to terminate themselves in nicer ways than killing them. For example:
kill -15 pid
Will terminate the process assocated with pid, but the process will be asked to terminate gracefully instead of the hari-kari job that a straight kill -9 pid would cause.
I’m not going to write a separate entry for each possible signal, but I’ve made a quick cheat-sheet here.
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