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the_rhino

10-24-2004 03:19 PM

how to kill a process

how does one find the pid of a running process?

Boby	10-24-2004 03:26 PM

Code:

ps -aux

gives you all process and their PID number. Just like CTRL+ALT+DEL in Windows.
To kill a process, type

Code:

kill PID_NR

Hope it helped!
Boby

twilli227

10-24-2004 03:27 PM

Run "top" in a terminal window. The left hand column is the pid.

Devils_Guardian

10-24-2004 04:36 PM

Won't die? .. MURDER IT!!!

I ran into a situation where the process wouldn't be killed.... sooooo...

The only way to do it at that point is to do a 'kill -9 PID'

That will take care of er!

One newbie to another,

DA

Tinkster

10-24-2004 04:44 PM

Or just use the widely unknown

skill!

skill -9 bash
or
skill -9 -u goofy

Cheers,
Tink

the_rhino

10-24-2004 10:05 PM

Thanks for the replies.

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