[wplug] NOHUP question
Steve Snodgrass
ssnodgra at pheran.com
Tue Apr 1 21:31:28 EST 2003
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:13:36PM -0500, Randy Kosarik wrote:
> Can you kill a process that has been initiated with NOHUP?
>
> ex:
> nohup cp ./* ../newfolder &
The same way that you kill any other process: kill <PID>.
The nohup command only protects from SIGHUP, which is typically generated if
you log out. It does nothing to SIGTERM, which is what kill sends unless you
specify otherwise.
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