How to close a prossess by name ?

freaker2k5 · 10-25-2004, 06:32 PM

Hello,
I have Mandrake 9.2,
and also I have a little question,
if i open Opera for example by the command '# opera'
How can I "kill" opera by name (like the command TASKKILL in windows CMD [without /F - force]) ?

Tinkster · 10-25-2004, 06:39 PM

skill -9 opera

(-2 if you want to aski it politely to terminate
itself ... )

Cheers,
Tink

freaker2k5 · 10-25-2004, 07:17 PM

tnx, but still it kills the prossess, and i need it to be "closed" (as if i closed it maqnually [with the mose or Esc]).

Tinkster · 10-25-2004, 07:28 PM

Try a few others ...

Code:

$ kill -l
 1) SIGHUP       2) SIGINT       3) SIGQUIT      4) SIGILL
 5) SIGTRAP      6) SIGABRT      7) SIGBUS       8) SIGFPE
 9) SIGKILL     10) SIGUSR1     11) SIGSEGV     12) SIGUSR2
13) SIGPIPE     14) SIGALRM     15) SIGTERM     17) SIGCHLD
18) SIGCONT     19) SIGSTOP     20) SIGTSTP     21) SIGTTIN
22) SIGTTOU     23) SIGURG      24) SIGXCPU     25) SIGXFSZ
26) SIGVTALRM   27) SIGPROF     28) SIGWINCH    29) SIGIO
30) SIGPWR      31) SIGSYS

Happy hunting!

If none of those do the trick it's programmed crappily,
and there's nothing we can do.

Cheers,
Tink

freaker2k5 · 10-26-2004, 04:19 AM

Sorry, but that doesn't seem to do what i need.
I shell explain myself like this:
What is the most harmless way to close a prossess by name in the comand line ?

note : for example, Opera opens the a spesific window (that i don't want it to open) after its prossess being "killed" .
How can i close it not kill ?

Tinkster · 10-26-2004, 01:05 PM

A process that's being killed displays a window?

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying, or
trying to achieve.

Are you just trying to suppress the opening of
a window?

Cheers,
Tink