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simple pkill question... - vcarrion - 2008-09-19
Does Pkill just end the service.. or does it actually restart it as well? I have used the command in this way Pkill -9 java to restart java... but what happens if I do not append java with the -9? I'm working on a live phoneswitch running Redhat and figured asking would be better than just doing to find out. Thanks a lot.
simple pkill question... - anyweb - 2008-09-19
pkill kills a process
the process you killed probably has a daemon which restarts itself once stopped *or killled*
cheers
anywe
simple pkill question... - hybrid - 2008-09-20
So pkill itself isn't doing the restarting, the daemon is probably bringing the process back up once it detects that it is not running.
simple pkill question... - Dungeon-Dave - 2008-09-24
Quote:Pkill -9 javaYou may want to refrain from the "-9" option: just pkill java will do the trick.
It may take longer for the java processes to stop, but they'll have a chance to shut down cleanly (and allow the OS to reclaim used memory, file handlers, etc)