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I have the following output via ps aux | grep node:

karlm    17551  1.4  0.7 1000592 93604 pts/2   Sl   09:54   0:01 node -r babel-register -r babel-polyfill src/index.js --config=c.json

I try to kill this with killall node.

It doesn't kill the process though?

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The default signal sent by killall is SIGTERM

The following command uses SIGKILL which sometimes is needed in order to kill a process:

killall -s KILL node

More info killall man

killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified commands. If no signal name is specified, SIGTERM is sent.

Options:
-s, --signal
Send this signal instead of SIGTERM.

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