A systems administrator has been unable to terminate a process. Which of the following should the administrator use to forcibly stop the process?

The correct answer is E. kill -TERM. NOTE: There is a likely error in this answer key. The question asks how to 'forcibly' stop a process that cannot be terminated normally. The correct answer for forcibly killing a process is kill -9 (SIGKILL), which cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored by the process - option…

System Management

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Options

Akill -1
Bkill -9
Ckill -15
Dkill -HUP
Ekill -TERM

How the community answered

(43 responses)

A
5% (2)
C
2% (1)
D
2% (1)
E
91% (39)

Explanation

NOTE: There is a likely error in this answer key. The question asks how to 'forcibly' stop a process that cannot be terminated normally. The correct answer for forcibly killing a process is kill -9 (SIGKILL), which cannot be caught, blocked, or ignored by the process - option B. kill -15 (SIGTERM) and kill -TERM (option E, the given 'correct' answer) send a polite termination request that the process can ignore or handle, making them non-forcible. kill -1 / kill -HUP sends a hangup signal typically used to reload configuration. If the administrator is already unable to terminate the process, SIGKILL (kill -9) is the appropriate escalation, not SIGTERM.

Topics

#Process Management#Linux Commands#Kill Signals#Process Termination

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