Finding information about a running process

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ps aux | grep <search-term> shows processes matching search-term

Example:

root@server7:~# ps aux | grep nginx
root       315  0.0  0.3 144392  1020 ?        Ss   May28   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
www-data  5647  0.0  1.1 145124  3048 ?        S    Jul18   2:53 nginx: worker process
www-data  5648  0.0  0.1 144392   376 ?        S    Jul18   0:00 nginx: cache manager process
root     13134  0.0  0.3   4960   920 pts/0    S+   14:33   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx
root@server7:~#

Here, second column is the process id. For example, if you want to kill the nginx process, you can use the command kill 5647. It is always adviced to use the kill command with SIGTERM rather than SIGKILL.

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