How Do You Stop a Process in Unix?
Contents the Most Obvious Way to Kill a Process Is Probably to Type Ctrl-C. This Assumes, of Course, That You’ve Just Started Running It and That You’re Still...
The most obvious way to kill a process is probably to type Ctrl-C. This assumes, of course, that you’ve just started running it and that you’re still on the command line with the process running in the foreground. There are other control sequence options as well.
How do you stop a process?
Is the process ID of the process that you want to terminate. When using the kill command to stop a process, first try using the command by itself, without including a signal option. Wait a few minutes to see if the process terminates before using the kill command with the -9 signal.
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Starting a process
The easiest way to start a process is to type its name at the command line and press Enter. If you want to start an Nginx web server, type nginx. Perhaps you just want to check the version.
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