when updating cpanel and you see this message that mean cPanel Update (upcp) is already running
cPanel Update (upcp) is already running. Please wait for the previous upcp to complete, or kill off all upcp processes and try again. You may wish to use ‘–force’ at /scripts/upcp line 48.
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cPanel Update (upcp) is already running. Please wait for the previous upcp to complete, or kill off all upcp processes and try again. You may wish to use ‘–force’
To kill this upcp:
Get the upcp pid
# ps aux | grep upcp
You should see a number which represent the pid for upcp in the front (normally second) column. Assuming it’s 88888, then use the following command to send the kill term signal to close upcp task.
kill -9 88888
Replacing the ‘88888? with the pid for upcp.