Questions tagged [kill-process]

This tag refers to the action of terminating (aborting) a process.

Use this tag for questions related to killing a specific process on a system.

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kill -QUIT: log not getting appended

I have a Java process. I am using log4j for logging purpose. I have specified in log4j.xml, location and name of log file. logging is working fine. I have problem with kill -3 logs here. I trying to get process-dump using kill -QUIT / killl -3…
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Android: Is it possible to ForceStop and Cleardata of an app programatically?

I am trying to kill an application programatically as Android does when there is overload in memory.. I had searched many post in stackoverflow itself regarding killing of an application, all concluded by saying it is not possible by the user to do…
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difference in using kill -9 with kill SIGUSR2

what is difference in operation using kill command format, in what scenario which one to used. kill -9 process-id kill SIGUSR2 process-id
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VB.NET: How to terminate a process that is already running outside of the current project

Hello once again and I need some help. I am developing an automatic updating component to update one of my other apps in vb.net. The problem is that IFF an update is available, the update app has to be able to "kill" the app that is being updated.…
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Get event on killing process of windows application from task manager in vb.net

I am using windows application for my project in VB.Net. Now Whenever my application runs and then user kill the process from task manager, i want any event from that that when user kill application from task manager. Is there any way to find out…
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How to restart background php process? (how to get pid)

I'm a PHP developer, and know very little about shell scripting... So I appreciate any help here. I have four php scripts that I need running in the background on my server. I can launch them just fine - they work just fine - and I can kill them by…
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How to propagates "kill" sent to bat file to process called from it?

I have a .bat script that launches a java process "java -jar ..." and after that I have two process in Windows, the original from where the bat is running (a cmd process) and a java process. If we kill the java process the control returns to bat…
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Kill reappearing processes

I'm making a shell script to kill applications; however I can't kill applications like Xcode that have multiple processes because when I kill the processes already running, new ones appear to take their place, maybe there's a parent process that…
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Android: display a layout for some second at launching app

If the app isn't already stored in memory and it needs to execute the onCreate method ( after a kill ), I want to show a layout ( essentially an image ) for some seconds when the app is launched. Then I want to load the basic layout of the…
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how can I kill or pause a thread when it return to previous intent or home page

There is a Button that start an activity every 30 second by a thread. My problem is when I start the activity I cannot cancel or pause it and it runs periodically when I go back to the previous page or even home screen and show the Intent. ans also…
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Eclipse Run Configuration to kill python.exe?

I am running a Django server from my run configuration which translates to: python manage.py runserver --noreload The stop button in the error panel doesn't kill the process, so I usually run pskill python How do I add this to my Eclipse run…
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kill process, throw an event and catch it whithin winform application

I've some Winform App which controls over some COMobject (start record and stop record) When I'm launching the winform app, I actually start recording by uisng COMobject. The problem is how to stop the record (closing Winform app where on close…
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Kill Multithreaded Process

Windows Mobile 6.5 I have a process which uses System.Threading.Timer upload some data to net at specified intervals. Now I want to terminate this process from a GUI application. I can use process enumerator to get Process object. What happens when…
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Javascript Process Kill with pass in name

I am looking to make a short javascript code that Kills a process running on my windows machine (i am developing the program on 7 but it must be run when in production on server 2003). I have started with the following code: w = new…
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posix_kill not working when run from browser

I have a simple script, which tries to kill an already running process. I am using posix_kill for the same. The script runs fine, if I run it from command shell, but doesn't work when I run it from the browser.
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