Hans du Plooy on 2006-07-11 15:24:34 +0200: > mercury:/home/www/web8/web# ps ax | grep ftp > 3123 ? Ds 0:00 proftpd: (accepting connections) > 18183 ? D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd > 19079 pts/0 D 0:00 /usr/sbin/proftpd > > How do I kill this? I'm not exactly in a position to restart the > server. Can you 'invoke-rc.d proftpd stop'? If that doesn't work, read the man page for kill(1). kill <process id> will ask the process to exit. kill -9 <pid> will tell it to quit, now. kill works outside Debian's mechanisms for starting and stopping services, though.
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