-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:16 pm, anthony baldwin wrote: > About that kill app function. > I have run "man kill" and it is not in any decipherable language > resembling english. I have, from time to time, had apps hang and not > respond and the only recourse I have found is to log out. I know that > is a weak way to handle the issue, but I can ont figure for the life of > me what I am supposed to do with that "kill" command. What the heck is > a pid and what signal or whatever belongs to the apps?! I'm lost on > that one. Suppose Mozilla has hung, and you want to make it go away. You can try 'ps ax | grep mozilla' $ ps ax | grep mozilla 9769 ? S 0:02 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/mozilla-bin The PID (process id) is the first number in the string. Now, we have a target for the kill command. (9769) You can now tell mozilla to go away: kill -9 9769 (kill a single process) killall -KILL mozilla-bin (kill all mozilla-bin processes) The above sends the process a SIGKILL. 'kill -l' lists the various signals by number and name. man 7 signal explains some of the signals. Or, you can ask nicely: kill -15 9769 killall -TERM mozilla-bin The above sends the process a SIGTERM. SIGTERM will allow a process to clean up after itself. zombie processes will often fail to respond to a SIGTERM. (Then again, they sometimes refuse to respond to a SIGKILL as well.) - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+C9z1n/07WoAb/SsRAk8nAKCFZ1yhlynlrRZdSKfLffwBf9inyACgho9Y NqxyRE96OD5AKs/7MiLyiaE= =8i9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
