Error when trying to kill processes -- "kill: pid: arguments must be process or job IDs"
It's
kill 1483
kill 1484
When you entered
kill pid 1483
What you said in effect was
Please kill the processes with number 'pid' and 1483.
The reference to pid
in the message
-bash: kill: pid: arguments must be process or job IDs
is telling you the string 'pid' was not a valid process ID
Nate
I'm a senior in college, majoring in EE and minoring in CS, with a passion for electronics and programming. I'm an entrepreneur and started a small hobby electronics company called FoxyTronics a few years ago, and am now working on launching a shopping website called PriceWombat.
Updated on August 15, 2020Comments
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Nate over 3 years
I'm trying to kill Sphinx on my server so that I can restart it. I tried using this command to find the PID:
ps ax | grep "searchd"
Which printed out this:
1483 ? S 00:00 /usr/local/bin/searchd --config /path/to/sphinx.conf 1484 ? Sl 20:51 /usr/local/bin/searchd --config /path/to/sphinx.conf 1523 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/bin/searchd --config /path/to/another/sphinx.conf 1524 ? Sl 20:35 /usr/local/bin/searchd --config /path/to/another/sphinx.conf 14174 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep searchd
I'm confused why there are duplicate entries and can't figure out what the
S
orSl
columns mean, but I tried this:kill pid 1483 kill pid 1484
But that outputted this error:
-bash: kill: pid: arguments must be process or job IDs
When I list the processes again, it looks like it did kill the processes (I ran the kill command for the first two), but the error makes me wonder what I did wrong?