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SIGTERM is a graceful request to the application to terminate itself and despite their names
kill
andkillall
default to SIGTERM (also useful to send other signals to processes, like START, STOP and NOHUP).kill -9
though..."You should terminate yourself, NOW!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
edit: also 17 FUCKING years ago... GD!
killall is deprecated, we use pkill now.