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I need some advice on how to completely kill the Jenkins process. It keeps restarting itself. On Mac OSX. 

$ps -eaf
216  1143     1   0   0:01.65 ??         0:04.03 /usr/bin/java -jar /Applications/Jenkins/jenkins.war

try to kill the process...

kill 1143

the process still exists under a different pid

$ps -eaf
216  1175     1   0   0:00.16 ??         0:01.44 /usr/bin/java -jar /Applications/Jenkins/jenkins.war

the parent process is launchd. What do I do? 

0     1     0   0   0:06.09 ??         0:06.19 /sbin/launchd
serverFaulter
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from the command line:

launchctl list

find the exact name of the process/app you don't want coming back. Then

launchctl remove <name_from_list_command>

hope this helps

MelBurslan
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  • it didnt help sorry. They are still popping up – Samuel Thompson Feb 27 '19 at 18:45
  • @SamuelThompson since you are not the owner of the original question, and your comment being about 5+ years late, I am assuming your situation is not the same as the original poster. There are more than one way to make applications persistent. There might be another totally irrelevant named process, which will be watching for this process and starting it up when it ceases to exist. Since 2013, Mas OSX has changed so many versions and me, not following it, the mechanism might have been changed as well. If I were you, I'd ask a new question. – MelBurslan Aug 22 '19 at 21:46