Kill a program not working

HarryBoy · 12-09-2008, 05:15 AM

Hi I have a program called 'myprogram'. Normally I would do
'killall myprogram' to terminate it.

But now my program is being started using 'nice; to change its priority like so:
:/bin/nice -n +5 /opt/ad/bin/myprogram

When I now do 'killall myprogram' it is not terminated.

Why is this so?

Thanks

harry

ph73nt · 12-09-2008, 06:16 AM

What's your output from ps -A?

thecarpy · 12-09-2008, 07:08 AM

do a

Code:

ps -ef | grep myprogram

get the PID of the process (the higher number of the two displayed) and kill it with:

Code:

kill 123

if that does not work, do

Code:

kill -11 123

baig · 12-09-2008, 08:23 AM

those processes which are not terminated with

Code:

killall -e programname..

or

Code:

kill process ID

you will have to treat them a bit harsh..

Code:

kill -9 process ID

will surely kill your process

Cheers!!