Unable to kill nohup process

Question

If I start the script by ./test.sh &, I am able to kill using kill -SIGINT PID.

But if I start my shell script using nohup ./test.sh & I am unable to kill the process using kill -SIGINT PID.

Kindly need your advice to kill the script using kill -SIGINT PID

See this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17385794/how-to-get-the-process-id-to-kill-a-nohup-process — Arjun Mathew Dan, Nov 10 '14 at 09:22

Edouard Thiel · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-10T09:41:13.570

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The SIGINT signal means interrupt from keyboard; that's why it terminates a script run in foreground, but not in background neither using nohup.

To properly terminate your process use kill -TERM PID, which works in the 3 cases.

edited Nov 10 '14 at 09:41

answered Nov 10 '14 at 09:31

Edouard Thiel

what is the difference between -SIGNTERM and -TERM? – james007 Nov 10 '14 at 10:00

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