How can I terminate a program?

If the Program is called "x" try
First check if it has a startup script called

/etc/init.d/x

Typically programs that are meant to run all the time have this. Then try

/etc/init.d/x stop

if there is no such file, run "ps" and get the ID of the process, the first number in the line (1234 for example). then kill the process with

kill -9 1234


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