Question

I just installed nginx. I am trying to stop it now using the pid file in the logs folder but it’s telling me that it’s illegal process id: cat /usr/local/logs/nginx.pid

The command that i run is: sudo kill 'cat /usr/local/logs/nginx.pid'

The pid is 15597 but in Activity Monitor i don’t see a process with that ID either. When I type: ps ax | grep nginx i get:

15597   ??  Ss     0:00.00 nginx: master process nginx
15883   ??  S      0:00.00 nginx: worker process
15898 s000  R+     0:00.00 grep nginx

Thanks

Answer 1

Try to kill the process directly:

kill 15597

or you can try the nginx start script in usr/local/etc/nginx:

nginx -s quit

You will probably have to adjust the path according to your installation.