How to kill a linux process using pid from php?

Question

I am facing one issue regarding killing a Linux process from my php code. I am running a Scrapy tool from my php code using the proc_open() function in the back

Answer 1

You can use exec with sudo privileges for skill that is more safer check out kill users processes in linux with php

Thanks & Regards,
Alok Thaker

Answer 2

Never, ever, give apache sudo permissions!

Use exec("kill -9 $pid"); - your apache process started it, it can kill it :)

Answer 3

Try posix_kill:

bool posix_kill ( int $pid , int $sig )

Send the signal sig to the process with the process identifier pid.