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Killing processes

When you want to remove a process from the system, you need the command kill. In fact, kill simply sends a signal out of a list of possible signals to a process. To remove a process from the system, you need signal number 9 or signal number 15.

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Thu Jul 26 10:50:59 HKT 2001