Commonly used to ask daemons to reload configuration.
Section: Process Control and Signals
Reload with SIGHUP
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kill -HUP 1234Explanation
Commonly used to ask daemons to reload configuration.
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Force kill with SIGKILL
Immediately kill a process that is not responding.
Pause process with SIGSTOP
Suspend execution without terminating the process.