Kill a program

tunedLow · 10-27-2001, 02:36 PM

How can I kill a program that's frozen? I have an older version of Netscape, and a java applet I wrote is making it crash.

Now it's just minimized but still frozen.

I have RH 7.1 and skimmed through the apps for somthing that would stop it but to no avail...

Thanks!

trickykid · 10-27-2001, 02:40 PM

you can run either top or ps -aux, get the PID, process id number and use the kill command to kill the process.

$ kill PID

and you can add a -9 for a no questions ask type of kill like this

$ kill -9 PID

tunedLow · 10-27-2001, 02:50 PM

That did it!!

I love this place - thanks much for your help.

acid_kewpie · 10-27-2001, 02:51 PM

or

killall program-name
easier than finding the PID etc, but i don't think it's as powerfull as kill -KILL tho. it will natuarlly, kill ALL the processes with the given name. Not sure if the name of the program has anythign to do with that or not... ;-)