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Kill is an operation of removing an object or process from memory so that other processes/variables can use them.

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Ensuring subprocesses are dead on exiting Python program

Is there a way to ensure all created subprocess are dead at exit time of a Python program? By subprocess I mean those created with subprocess.Popen(). If not, should I iterate over all of the issuing kills and then kills -9? anything cleaner?
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How do I kill a process using Vb.NET or C#?

I have a scenario where I have to check whether user has already opened Microsoft Word. If he has, then I have to kill the winword.exe process and continue to execute my code. Does any one have any straight-forward code for killing a process using…
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How to kill all subprocesses of shell?

I'm writing a bash script, which does several things. In the beginning it starts several monitor scripts, each of them runs some other tools. At the end of my main script, I would like to kill all things that were spawned from my shell. So, it might…
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How is it possible that kill -9 for a process on Linux has no effect?

I'm writing a plugin to highlight text strings automatically as you visit a web site. It's like the highlight search results but automatic and for many words; it could be used for people with allergies to make words really stand out, for example,…
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how to kill hadoop jobs

I want to kill all my hadoop jobs automatically when my code encounters an unhandled exception. I am wondering what is the best practice to do it? Thanks
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How to kill an application with all its activities?

Possible Duplicate: Quitting an application - is that frowned upon? I want to offer the user an option to exit the application as I need to delete some sensitive data, which is stored in the SharedPreferences as long as the application needs…
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Starting apache fails (could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80)

Update: Already fixed, it seems that one of VirtualHosts configurations files was wrong in sites-enabled. I have Ubuntu 11.10 When I run the command to start apache2: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start I get the following error message: Starting web…
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Killing a defunct process on UNIX system

I have a defunct process on my system: abc 22093 19508 0 23:29 pts/4 00:00:00 grep ProcA abc 31756 1 0 Dec08 ? 00:00:00 [ProcA_my_collect] How can I kill the above process, without a reboot of the machine? I have…
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Terminating idle mysql connections

I see a lot of connections are open and remain idle for a long time, say 5 minutes. Is there any solution to terminate / close it from server without restarting the mysql service? I am maintaining a legacy PHP system and can not close the…
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Python: how to kill child process(es) when parent dies?

The child process is started with subprocess.Popen(arg) Is there a way to ensure it is killed when parent terminates abnormally? I need this to work both on Windows and Linux. I am aware of this solution for Linux. Edit: the requirement of starting…
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How to kill a child process by the parent process?

I create a child process using a fork(). How can the parent process kill the child process if the child process cannot complete its execution within 30 seconds? I want to allow the child process to execute up to 30 seconds. If it takes more than 30…
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How do I kill a process in MySQL running within Amazon RDS?

I’m using MySql 5.5.37. As root, I’m trying to kill a transaction that’s locking some tables. I run SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_TRX\G and get the output … *************************** 6. row *************************** …
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How to kill process inside container? Docker top command

I have simple example from official guide at docker website. I run the following: sudo docker run -d ubuntu:latest /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo hello world; sleep 1; done" a66asdasdhqie123... Then take some output from created container: sudo…
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How to kill a nohup process?

I executed the following command $ nohup ./tests.run.pl 0 & now when I try to kill it (and the executions that are started from this script) using $ kill -0 it does not work. How can I kill a nohupped process and the processes that…
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Kill process after a given time bash?

I have a script that tries to make a DB connection using another program and the timeout(2.5min) of the program is to long. I want to add this functionality to the script. If it takes longer then 5 seconds to connect, kill the process Else kill the…
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