How to get the process ID to kill a nohup process?

Question

I\'m running a nohup process on the server. When I try to kill it my putty console closes instead.

this is how I try to find the process ID:

ps -ef |         


        

Answer 1

About losing your putty: often the ps ... | awk/grep/perl/... process gets matched, too! So the old school trick is like this

ps -ef | grep -i [n]ohup 

That way the regex search doesn't match the regex search process!

Answer 2

You could try

kill -9 `pgrep [command name]`

Answer 3

This works for mi fine on mac

kill -9 `ps -ef | awk '/nohup/{ print \$2 }'`

Answer 4

jobs -l should give you the pid for the list of nohup processes. kill (-9) them gently. ;)

Answer 5

This works in Ubuntu

Type this to find out the PID

ps aux | grep java

All the running process regarding to java will be shown

In my case is

johnjoe      3315  9.1  4.0 1465240 335728 ?      Sl   09:42   3:19 java -jar batch.jar

Now kill it kill -9 3315

The zombie process finally stopped.

Answer 6

when you create a job in nohup it will tell you the process ID !

nohup sh test.sh &

the output will show you the process ID like

25013

you can kill it then :

kill 25013