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
