Question: help me resolve this error in apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

error:

There are processes named 'apache2' running which do not match your pid file which are left untouched in the name of safety, Please review the situation by hand.

thanks

Answer: 
Kill them.

`kill -9 $(ps -e | grep apache2 | awk '{print $1}')`
none of these answers worked.. this did

```
kill -9 $(pidof apache2)

```