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Give me my KILL-power when something goes wrong

We've had it a few times now. Suddenly our production server won't respond because a process is in an infinite loop, or the MySQL server stops serving new requests because one query is blocking everything... We SSH to the server and use ps aux or…
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kill -9 doesn't work

I have a server with 3 oracle instances on it, and the file system is nfs with netapp. After shutdown the databases, one process for each database doesn't quit for a long time. Each kill -i doesn't work. I tried to truss, pfile it, the command…
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How can I prevent users using kill in bash?

I've tried chmod 700 /bin/kill chown root /bin/kill but a normal user can still do: kill blah ... and successfully kill the app 'blah' running under the user's account. I'm using Ubuntu (8.10). The bash shell apparently has the kill command…
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How to kill an "exiting" process on OS X (state = E)

I have a process on my Mac OS X system which is in state E ("The process is trying to exit."): % ps auwwwxc | grep -si JavaApplicationS sbwoodside 84547 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? E Mon12am 0:00.00 (JavaApplicationS) kill -9 84547…
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Centos killing parent shell wont kill background child processes?

I am learning for the Red Hat certification. In the book it is stated that since RHEL 7 (so also Centos latest version) that you dont need to use nohup anymore if you launch a process in the background, if you kill the parent shell the started…
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Why kill makes a bash script exit

after the kill statement the script prints "Terminated" and the following lines never get executed: #!/bin/bash kill -9 `ps -ef | grep MailSender | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` echo starting ./MailSender I have even tried to add set +e at the…
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Kill process group not working

I'm on Debian GNU/Linux. The man page for "kill" says I can use negative PID value to kill process group, but when running on command line, it does not work: $ /bin/kill -9 -21581 /bin/kill: invalid option -- '2' Usage: kill [options] …
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What is oom-kiler and why is it happening ? Should I avoid it?

I have a server that is now having "invoked oom-killer" many times a day ! I never saw that and even after reading tons of forums on Internet I'm still puzzled : is it a big problem ? Why is it happening ? And what is the cause of that ? Should I…
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How do I kill a runaway cronjob

I have a cronjob that is set to run constantly. It's a php file that streams data from twitter. However twitter goes down every once a while or we lose connection so I have cron checking back every minute to try and run the file. The php script…
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When will kill PID fail?

I'm trying to kill 31216 31617,but after 10 times,that process still survives. Why? Is there a way to force it dead? root 31216 1 0 10:49 ? 00:00:00 nginx: master process /root/nginx-1.0.2/objs/nginx -c…
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I want to find something and kill it

I keep running these two commands over and over: $ ps aux | grep php | grep -v grep www-data 3663 100 14.8 328620 304900 ? R 12:56 0:54 php /home/jason/projects/mcif/./symfony import:process --id=91 jason@gob:~/projects/mcif$ sudo kill…
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Guaranteeing Shell Responsiveness on Pegged System

So my system is getting DOS'd, or I've just opened a kind-of-huge file (openstreetmaps planet.osm). The system goes totally unresponsive... so unresponsive that it'll take about 10 minutes to get into my shell, run top, and kill the offending…
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kill both parent and child processes

I am running a bash script as a background job. The bash script calls a time-consuming executable. If I am not wrong, the running of the bash script is the parent process and the running of the executable is the child process. (1) when I look at the…
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Are these two commands to kill a process effectively similar?

I'm looking at some init.d scripts, and a number of them use this what is essentially this command in their "stop)" target: kill $(pidof ${DAEMON_NAME}) The pidof ${DAEMON_NAME} is actually a script function that checks the status code and calls…
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Kill defunct xrdp session --- xrdp users cannot log on

user cannot connect to server over xrdp tested using linux remoted desktop client, as well as windows remote desktop client error messages is "error: problem connecting" /var/log/sesman.log shows this error [20170419-22:06:02] [INFO ] scp thread…
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