Terminate a program using the SIGHUP (hang up) signal. Many daemons will reload instead of terminating

kill

  • Sends a signal to a process, usually related to stopping the process.
    All signals except for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP can be intercepted by the process to perform a clean exit.
    More information: <https://manned.org/kill>.
  • Trick copyright: tl;dr; <https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr>

kill -{{1|HUP}} {{process_id}}

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