How do I manually kill a process on my Linux server?

  • Post category:SSH
  • Post comments:0 Comments

Log into your server as the root user and find the process PID that you wish to kill. You can do that by issuing the ps command with the aux options. See example below.

ps aux

This will display a process list and each visible process should have a line similar to the one below.

username 31262 0.0 0.0 12168 1752 ? S 00:25 0:00 somecommand

(more…)

Continue ReadingHow do I manually kill a process on my Linux server?