Best Answer: How Do I Restart a Linux Process?
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How kill and restart a process in Linux?

To restart a stopped process, you must either be the user who started the process or have root user authority.

  1. To show all the processes running or stopped but not those killed on your system, type the following: …
  2. In the ps command output, find the process you want to restart and note its PID number.

How do I restart a Linux process automatically?

The easiest way would be to add it to /etc/inittab, which is designed to do this sort of thing: respawn If the process does not exist, start the process. Do not wait for its termination (continue scanning the /etc/inittab file). Restart the process when it dies.

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