dumb question

xedios · 08-31-2004, 02:38 PM

Hi all

I was wondering if I could kill a proces by his name

ig.

If I wish to kill a proces i do so

#ps -ef|grep " app name "

#and then I get a pid

#kill -9 pid

So if it's there a simplier way to kill this please letmi know

Thanx
Xedios

ranger_nemo · 08-31-2004, 03:07 PM

You can try pidof... As long as you don't have several processes of the same name running.

# kill $(pidof app_name)

That depends on pidof being in your path, otherwise you can use...

# kill $(/sbin/pidof app_name)

xedios · 08-31-2004, 03:10 PM

ok thanx

but Imagin that i like to kil several instances of wget or some other proces ... does this work an kils every proces by this name ??

Susage · 08-31-2004, 03:18 PM

Why don't you just use KSysGuard, it's like the windows task manager and you can highlight serveral processes and click Kill

xedios · 08-31-2004, 03:19 PM

because I DONT HAVE A GUI

Thanx
Xedios

sketelsen · 08-31-2004, 03:23 PM

if it's an application, usually

Code:

killall appname

does the trick.

xedios · 08-31-2004, 03:24 PM

thanx