Killing process stuck in background
It is common that some unix processes get stuck and doesn't respond to Ctrl-C. You have to search it's PID then by ps -ef | grep ... and then pass that value to kill command.
There is a shorter method to send SIGKILL to such process. Just put it in the background by Ctrl-Z and then:
kill -9 %1should kill it.
Written by Piotr Jagielski
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Great tip ! I've been in this situation several times ;)
over 1 year ago
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