I am going through a tutorial on recovering from a database failure and in the tutorial, a failure on the host of the primary database is simulated with:
kill -9 <>
I know that the kill command is used to send a signal to a process, and that 9 represents the SIGKILL signal that terminates a process, but what does the <> argument stand for?
I have read the manual pages for the kill command but still cannot figure out why and what for <> is used.
In Windows by using Task Manager we can see how many .exe files are running. Also in command prompt we use tasklist command to see processes. In ubuntu how can I see all processes and kill unwanted processes?
How do I kill all processes running by my own non-root account?
I have some spinning smbd processes that I caused from my windows machine and so I telnetted into the linux server and I want to kill those spinning processes. I don't have authority to restart services or reboot the machine.
Currently, I use a line like this in my sh script file:
kill $(ps aux | grep -F 'myServer' | grep -v -F 'grep' | awk '{ print $2 }')
But I wonder how to call it only if process (myServer here) is running?
I have been playing around with Ubuntu installing new themes and and docks. Sometimes during the installation, whole screen just hangs. What is the best way in Ubuntu to Kill a process/application? Anything similar to Ctrl + Alt + Del of windows?