Hi, pkill is really nice, but I recommend not using the verbose -v option ;-). I used that once to kill all evolution processes on my machine: "pkill -v evolution" ... believe me, next time I will read the man-pages before I try an unknown option :-).
regards, Volker Am Montag, den 14.11.2005, 09:11 -0500 schrieb Murphy, Christopher: > > Also, is there a betterr way to check for a process than > > "ps -ef |grep process name"? > > I believe Solaris 7+ has this little tool which might be useful to you: > > pgrep <process name> > > And it's twin: > > pkill <process name> > > Both accept the same arguments. The '-U' option is nice if you need to > search by user. > HTH! > > Chris Murphy > IT Resource Analyst - Enterprise Architecture > Institute for Defense Analyses >
