Thanks all. I was using kill <pid> while running top, and at a bash prompt. Repeatedly. That worked sometimes in the past with the same program. But I must have tried it a 100 times in the last 24 hours to kill the same process (enjoympeg).
I tried kill -9 <pid> at a bash prompt, thanks to the suggestions from the responses, and that took it out the first time I tried it. Should've hit the man pages from the beginning, was using top's help instead (running top on a different terminal as root, which is standard practice), which actually didn't help. Thanks again. Bing. On Friday 13 June 2003 19:04, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 05:34:51PM -0400, lists1 wrote: > > What can I do to kill a process that refuses to be killed? > > depends, can be rather tricky if processes have the "zombie" flag. > > kill or kill -9 usually works though. -- All spam received is reported to SpamCop. http://spamcop.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
