[CentOS] Stopping a server not controled by service

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:54, Alex <ethericalzen at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to terminate the process you can find the PID via 'ps
> aux' and issue the command 'kill -9 pidofprocess'. If you know the
> name of the process you may use 'killall -9 processname'.

Why the hell -9?

TERM is -15 and HUP is -1 (but I would stick to the names).

Using -9 is almost always the wrong answer. It's a last resort when
everything else failed, and it should be reserved for such.

One should never use this command on a day-to-day basis, much less
teach it or suggest it in a mailing list like this one.

Filipe