nginx: [alert] kill(57200, 1) failed (3: No such process)

Question

When I am executing this command:

./nginx -s reload

Throw error:

nginx: [alert] kill(57200, 1) failed (3: No such process)

when I open the nginx.pid file:

vim /usr/loca/nginx/logs/nginx.pid

the process id is:57200.But when I am checking nginx process,it does not have master process,the output is:

    [root@localhost logs]# ps -aux|grep nginx
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.8/FAQ
root      12191  0.0  0.0  28172  8956 ?        S    Aug29   3:54 nginx: worker process                        
root      12192  0.0  0.0  28172  8960 ?        S    Aug29   3:53 nginx: worker process                        
root      12193  0.0  0.0  28436  9272 ?        S    Aug29   3:46 nginx: worker process                        
root      12194  0.0  0.0  28172  8948 ?        S    Aug29   3:55 nginx: worker process                        
root      12195  0.0  0.0  28436  9156 ?        S    Aug29   3:56 nginx: worker process                        
root      12196  0.0  0.0  28172  8944 ?        S    Aug29   3:49 nginx: worker process                        
root      12197  0.0  0.0  28172  8988 ?        S    Aug29   3:58 nginx: worker process                        
root      12198  0.0  0.0  27908  8740 ?        S    Aug29   3:42 nginx: worker process                        
root      12199  0.0  0.0  27908  8744 ?        S    Aug29   3:39 nginx: worker process                        
root      53760  0.0  0.0 103252   832 pts/1    S+   22:14   0:00 grep nginx
root      80835  0.0  0.0  27908  8740 ?        S    Aug31   2:30 nginx: worker process

What's wrong? How to solve this problem? The nginx version is 1.10.2.

Answer 1

I also faced similar issue on nginx 1.10.2.

Instead of ./nginx -s reload, I used ./nginx to start nginx and it solved this issue.