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Development Tools Console Foundations Processes Killing Processes

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Kill command doesn't work

Hi.

I'm 5 minutes 18 seconds into the video. In Tab 1, I used the kill command on a process, kill 2544. When I ran jobs, that process was still listed. Nothing is running in Tab 2. Can anyone tell me why the kill command won't work?

2 Answers

Michael Hernandez
Michael Hernandez
15,887 Points

Processes can ignore some signals. If you send SIGKILL it will not be able to ignore it (and neither catch it to do cleanups). Try: kill -9 {PID}