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Is it possible to shutdown/restart the Mac completely (processes-wise)? My problem is that I'm having issues with terminating a service (pkill and kill are not doing the job, I don't know why), and if I shutdown or restart the computer, the processes are still running in the background.
The processes I'm talking about are catalina and tomcat - manually started Apache services.
Two items are likely wrong:
- ...the processes are still running in the background.
- manually started apache processes
Both are probably not so. They have been restarted automatically. To prevent this,
Try to kill the process by sending it the TERM signal
sudo kill -15 {PID}
Check if your services are restarted automatically by launchd
launchctl list | grep tomcat
If yes, unload e.g.
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysql.plist
The processes which you mentioned (catalina & tomcat) are not system services. These must have been set to start their daemon when these packages/services are installed and executed for the first time. Please refer this https://www.mulesoft.com/tcat/tomcat-start to get more information on how you can set it to run manually.
The way to do this is given in my answer here. However this is not a duplicate as the other question asks about GUI apps.
The command you need is shutdown
e.g. to reboot the machine immediately
sudo shutdown -r now
e.g. to shutdown the machine in 60 minutes
sudo shutdown -h +60
If tomcat and catalina are setup correctly then they will controlled by a launchd setup (or if less well done a Unix script) that will restart the process(es) when the machine starts up or the process is killed. So running kill on then does kill them but another process will start.
