How to kill a back-grounded job?

manojg · 05-22-2008, 05:08 PM

Hi,

I have a similar problem. A job is running in background. I tried to kill by kill -9 #jobID but it is not working. Is there any way to kill the job?

Thanks.

vadkutya · 05-22-2008, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manojg

Hi,

I have a similar problem. A job is running in background. I tried to kill by kill -9 #jobID but it is not working. Is there any way to kill the job?

Thanks.

i have never heard that this is possibile. i don't believe it. if you are root and type kill -9 $PID you're sending the process a signal SIGKILL which can not be caught or ignored. the process WILL be KILLED. as normale user, however, you will only be able to kill the processes you started.

vadkutya

chrism01 · 05-22-2008, 06:52 PM

As said above, job id != pid
The std kill cmd only works on pids.

toaravind · 05-23-2008, 02:01 AM

Few other commands to kill a process 1) kill <PID> 2) kill -9 <PID> 3) killall <PID> 4) skill -9 <PID> 5) pkill -9 <PID>. As Chris mentioned it will work only with PID

jay73 · 05-23-2008, 03:23 AM

You can stop all jobs you can stop using

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kill -9 -1

But you should NEVER use this command if you are root!! If you do, there is a very good chance it will make your system crash in no time at all.

Tinkster · 05-23-2008, 02:55 PM

I split your question plus the responses out of the
other thread.

And please don't dig up 4 year old corpses of threads
because they kind of match your question...

Cheers,
Tink

SlowCoder · 05-23-2008, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by manojg

Hi,

I have a similar problem. A job is running in background. I tried to kill by kill -9 #jobID but it is not working. Is there any way to kill the job?

Thanks.

Assuming you're confusing the job ID with the PID, you can get the PID from 'ps'.

If that's not your problem, you may have a zombie process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process