Secure Socket Shell, SSH, Secure Shell is a protocol and command interface that is UNIX based that helps to gain secure access to remote computers. It is predominantly put to use by network administrators in order to have a control over Web and various other types of servers too in a remote fashion.

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

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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

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