Cannot kill httpd process even with -9

Question

I cannot kill httpd process on my VPS running centos 6.5.

I tried killing it with -9 flag which didn't work either.

Output of command: ps aux | grep httpd

root     29459  0.0  0.0 103252   828 pts/0    S+   11:24   0:00 grep httpd

What is strange is that every time when kill -9 29459 command is entered the pid of the above process increments by 2 and kill command returns No such process

What happened before this was that I tried to restart httpd but because of an error with SSL it couldn't restart

Any help would be appreciated.

You can't kill a process that is not running! – Michael Hampton Mar 31 '14 at 11:59 — Michael Hampton, Mar 31 '14 at 11:59

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '14 at 11:35

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You are trying to kill the grep command, which you have just run. Since the grep command already completed, you cannot kill it.

answered Mar 31 '14 at 11:35

kasperd

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So how do I get correct PID of httpd process? – Sahil Mar 31 '14 at 11:38
1) fix the reported error 2) start httpd 3) ps auxww | grep httpd – symcbean Mar 31 '14 at 11:41
Either the process isn't running or it has a different name. Possibly `pidof apache2` could work. – kasperd Mar 31 '14 at 11:43
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Why not just use the native `service httpd stop` command? – Oldskool Mar 31 '14 at 11:46

Cannot kill httpd process even with -9

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