Editing Kill (command) (section)

====Examples====
A process can be sent a [[SIGTERM]] signal in four ways (the process ID is '1234' in this case):

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
kill 1234
kill -s TERM 1234
kill -TERM 1234
kill -15 1234
</syntaxhighlight>

The process can be sent a [[SIGKILL]] signal in three ways:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
kill -s KILL 1234
kill -KILL 1234
kill -9 1234
</syntaxhighlight>

Other useful signals include HUP, TRAP, INT, [[SIGSEGV|SEGV]] and ALRM. HUP sends the [[SIGHUP]] signal. Some daemons, including [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache]] and [[Sendmail]], re-read [[configuration file]]s upon receiving SIGHUP, so the kill command may be used for this too. A [[SIGINT (POSIX)|SIGINT]] signal can be generated very simply by pressing [[Control-C|{{keypress|CTRL|C}}]] in most [[Unix shell]]s. It is also common for [[Control-Z|{{keypress|CTRL|Z}}]] to be mapped to [[SIGTSTP]] ("terminal stop"), and for [[Control-\|{{keypress|CTRL|\}}]] (backslash) to be mapped to [[SIGQUIT]], which can force a program to do a [[core dump]].