Linux: Killall command
It is your responsibility to ensure safe usage of these commands, improper usage could cause damage to services and file systems. We will not be held responsible.
There is a number way of killing processes on a Linux based OS, killall is one of these methods. It’s always good to be ready to kill an unwanted process or a rogue process which is eating resources.
Usage
Kill all instances of the “httpd” process
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killall httpd |
Kill all proccesses running under the user “postfix”
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killall -u postfix |
Kill a specific process but its full path
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killall /usr/libexec/postfix/master |
Command not found?
It does not always come pre-installed, it’s simple to install.
Ubuntu / Debian
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apt-get install psmisc |
RHEL – Red hat / Fedora / CentOS
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yum install psmisc |
This package also contains the following useful programs:
fuser– identifies what processes are using files.killall– kills a process by its name, similar to apkillUnices.pstree– Shows currently running processes in a tree format.peekfd– Peek at file descriptors of running processes.