Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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ahan_114318's avatar
ahan_114318
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Nov 07, 2017

Is there a way (command etc.) to completely kill a specific process?

I want to test on the assumption that certain processes (bigd, cbrd, mcpd, scriptd, snmpd, sod, tmm, tmrouted, wccpd) have dropped on failure. (I want to capture what kind of syslog is output at this...
application delivery
big-ip
LTM
Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Nov 07, 2017

Hi Ahan,

the 

kill
command is the right choice to terminate a given process. The problem in your case is just, that BIG-IPs watchdog service is automatically restarting the 
bigd
service when it gets (for whatever reason) terminated. In addition to that you will see some lines in your 
/var/logs/ltm
indicating the process restart ...

To stop (aka. no termination) the 

bigd
service manually you may enter the following command on your bash... 

~  bigstart disable bigd

Cheers, Kai