If you are using a centos 7 minimal installation, and trying to kill process by name using the command ‘killall’, you are most likely going to see the error:<\/p>\n
The error appears because CentOS 7 encourages you to use pkill instead of killall to kill process by name. pkill has versatile application, although, it can be used to kill process by name same as killall.<\/p>\n You can use pkill. pkill is a simple command. It’s syntax is as following:<\/p>\n For example, if you want to kill all the php process, run:<\/p>\n Note: It will kill all the processes that match php. To list the process that pkill going to kill, you can use pgrep as following:<\/p>\n If you do not want to use pkill, and keep using killall commands in centos 7, this is also possible. killall is a part of psmisc yum package. All you have to do, is to install psmisc in your system using yum<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Problem: If you are using a centos 7 minimal installation, and trying to kill process by name using the command ‘killall’, you are most likely going to see the error: # killall -9 php killall: command not found The error appears because CentOS 7 encourages you to use pkill instead of killall to kill process … Continue reading “Troubleshoot: killall command not found in centos 7”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,191,21,150,26],"tags":[220,241,243,242,244,221,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# killall -9 php
\nkillall: command not found<\/code><\/p>\nHow to kill process by name in Centos 7<\/h4>\n
# pkill processname<\/code><\/p>\n# pkill php<\/code><\/p>\n# pgrep -l php<\/code><\/p>\nHow to use killall in Centos 7<\/h4>\n
# yum install psmisc
\n# killall -9 php<\/code><\/p>\n