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[–] Laser@feddit.org 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

SIGTERM is a graceful request to the application to terminate itself and despite their names kill and killall default to SIGTERM (also useful to send other signals to processes, like START, STOP and NOHUP).

kill -9 though...

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

"You should terminate yourself, NOW!"

[–] debounced@kbin.run 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

killall is deprecated, we use pkill now.