On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:41:45PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:16:09PM -0800, anthony baldwin wrote: > > I have run "man kill" and it is not in any decipherable language > > resembling english. > > Sure it is... you just need to know a little about Unix signals and > processes. A pid as a Process ID. You can find out the pid of > running processes using the ps command. < SNIP > This is an excellent tutorial, and while a basic knowlege of pids and the use of the ps command is something that anyone spending time with Linux (or Mac OS X, for that matter) will find useful, a simpler suggestion would be: "Read the killall man page with "man killall", and if "killall <program>" doesn't work, try "killall -KILL <program>". -- John Kodis Goddard Space Flight Center kodis@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Phone: 301-286-7376 Fax: 301-286-1771 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
