On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> $ kill -l
>
>
> This is kill -ell
>
> I wanted to show that  it is not the numeral '1' but 'l' ,English ell.
>
> Anyway you kill a process with this command.
>
> $ kill 3423
>
> to kill the process whose ID is 3423.
>
> By default SIGKILL is sent I think.
>
> You can send any signal from the above list by using
>
> $ kill -HUP 3423
>
> for sending SIGHUP. Just drop the SIG prefix and send.

When you cannot kill a process using kill or top, use killall
<process_name> to purge all instances of that process. Often useful
when Firefox says another instance is running while testing web
applications.

$ killall firefox
$ killall opera

To find if the process is running and its process id, use:

$ ps aux | grep <process-pattern>

--
Salva
_______________________________________________
To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with
"unsubscribe <password> <address>"
in the subject or body of the message.
http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Reply via email to