Ctrl-C (also seen as ^C)

Ctrl-C (also seen as ^C)

• will terminate the process running in the foreground - the process the keyboard can access. This is not the same as ^Z! (but see kill -sigint)

kill -signal pid

• allows for stopping/killing/restarting any process or daemon by sending its process ID (pid) a signal

kill -l

• List all the signals available

killall -signal processname

• allows for stopping/killing/restarting of all processes or daemons matching the name given

Note: Killing a parent process may or may not also kill all of its child processes. Killing a child process is not likely to also terminate its parent process.