To save you a bit of time (and typing), you can also use pkill. In your example, it would be: pkill mozilla OR you could also use pkill -9 mozilla Cheers, Chris Williams On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 21:54, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -----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----- ==================================== "If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' someone else's dog around." --Cowboy Wisdom -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
