Actually sudo is not useful here. sudo allows you to kill any process not just your processes. But Mail and VOiceOVer are being run by the user who logged in.
So to force Mail to quit: killall Mail to force VoiceOver to quit killall VoiceOver For those that are interested in at least one version of BSD which MacOS is based on, the killall command was just a shell script that called ps and piped the results through grep and finally awk to get a list of PID that were then send the appropriate signals with kill. that the current Macintosh version of killall is actually a binary and not a script. > On Feb 15, 2016, at 12:41, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > yup. > > sudo killall mail > > hit enter. > > type your administrator password. > > Hit enter. > Boom! > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caitlyn Furness" > <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 10:32 AM > Subject: Re: > > > Hi, > Is there a way to shut down mail via terminal? > > the computer I am currently trying to fix from this stupid malicious code > > thanks > Cait > >> On Feb 14, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: >> >> If you get caught by the very long strings that kills Alex and aren’t using >> another synth or can’t switch to it, you can press Command+Space, type >> terminal, press enter. Press backspace and listen for the bell. Type “sudo >> shutdown -r now” and press enter, type your password, and press enter. Your >> Mac restarts. >> >> The perpetrator is sending emails to individual members from a gmail account >> off-list as well, so watch out. >> >> Obviously I sincerely hope that the moderators hang the responsible party >> from the gallows by the naughty bits. It probably won’t help, but it’s >> worth trying. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
