XK0-006 System Management Practice Question
A process with PID 2345 is not responding. The administrator wants to force stop the process immediately. Which command should be used?
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kill -9 2345
SIGKILL (signal 9) forcefully terminates a process. kill -9 2345 sends SIGKILL to PID 2345.
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kill -9 2345
Why this is correct
Correct: SIGKILL (9) forces immediate termination.
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kill -1 2345
Why it's wrong here
SIGHUP (1) typically reloads configuration; does not stop.
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pkill -15 -f processname
Why it's wrong here
-15 sends SIGTERM, not SIGKILL.
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kill -15 2345
Why it's wrong here
SIGTERM (15) requests graceful termination; process may ignore it.
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