diff --git a/killYACY.sh b/killYACY.sh
index e9413e788..a5db0ab42 100755
--- a/killYACY.sh
+++ b/killYACY.sh
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
 # To stop YaCy, use stopYACY.sh
 
 cd `dirname $0`
+PID=`fuser DATA/LOG/yacy00.log.lck | awk '{print $1}'`
+echo "process-id is " $PID
+kill -3 $PID
+kill -9 $PID
 PID=`fuser DATA/LOG/yacy00.log | awk '{print $1}'`
 echo "process-id is " $PID
 kill -3 $PID
 kill -9 $PID
 rm -f DATA/yacy.running
-echo "killed pid " $PID ", YaCy terminated"
-
+echo "killed pid " $PID ", YaCy terminated"
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