igli 1202635033 learn Useless Use of Kill -9 aka -SIGKILL. See: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter for the correct way to bring down a process. lhunath 1210188059 forget lhunath 1210188250 learn Unsafe Use of Kill: kill -9 sends the KILL signal to a process which is the exact same thing as normal kill, except that it prevents the process from cleaning up after itself. You do NOT want to use it. See http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter lhunath 1210188288 forget lhunath 1210188318 learn Unsafe Use of Kill: kill -9 sends SIGKILL to a process which is the exact same thing as normal kill (SIGTERM), except that it prevents the process from cleaning up after itself. You do NOT want to use it. See http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter