Kill a process

By process id (pid)

Find the process id

To see all processes: ps aux

Only by name: ps aux | grep name

Only the process id by name: pidof name

Kill the process

Kill immediately and absolutely: kill -9 pid

Kill gracefully (tell it to please shut down and wrap things up first): kill -15 pid

Other commands

• killall
• pkill

References:

• How to force kill process in Linux using kill and killall
• Classic SysAdmin: How to Kill a Process from the Linux Command Line