I cannot kill httpd process on my VPS running centos 6.5.
I tried killing it with -9 flag which didn't work either.
Output of command: ps aux | grep httpd
root 29459 0.0 0.0 103252 828 pts/0 S+ 11:24 0:00 grep httpd
What is strange is that every time when kill -9 29459 command is entered the pid of the above process increments by 2 and kill command returns No such process
What happened before this was that I tried to restart httpd but because of an error with SSL it couldn't restart
Any help would be appreciated.
Best Answer
You are trying to kill the grep command, which you have just run. Since the grep command already completed, you cannot kill it.