diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 89f9ac04aa..c58a5b6d00 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 out/
+.idea
diff --git a/integration/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_daemons b/integration/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_daemons
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..134ce92cac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration/dockerfiles/Dockerfile_test_daemons
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FROM busybox
+RUN while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=file`date +%s`.txt count=16000 bs=256  > /dev/null 2>&1; done &
+RUN echo "wait a second..." && sleep 2 && ls -lrat file*.txt || echo "test passed."
diff --git a/pkg/commands/run.go b/pkg/commands/run.go
index 2d85480dd1..0367e67230 100644
--- a/pkg/commands/run.go
+++ b/pkg/commands/run.go
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/docker/docker/builder/dockerfile/instructions"
 	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
 
@@ -88,10 +89,29 @@ func (r *RunCommand) ExecuteCommand(config *v1.Config, buildArgs *dockerfile.Bui
 			}
 			gid = uint32(gid64)
 		}
-		cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{}
+		cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
 		cmd.SysProcAttr.Credential = &syscall.Credential{Uid: uid, Gid: gid}
 	}
-	return cmd.Run()
+
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "starting command")
+	}
+
+	pgid, err := syscall.Getpgid(cmd.Process.Pid)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "getting group id for process")
+	}
+
+	if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "waiting for process to exit")
+	}
+
+	//it's not an error if there are no grandchildren
+	if err := syscall.Kill(-pgid, syscall.SIGKILL); err != nil && err.Error() != "no such process" {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 // FilesToSnapshot returns nil for this command because we don't know which files