Re: [LIH] forcefully stopping command

[Syed Khader Vali]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Neeraj Manral wrote:

> Is there any other way to forcefully stop a command from running  apart from
> ctrl -C.

Hi,
This is what I do on my machine.

sidgeek@calvin:~$ pidof xmms
2365
sidgeek@calvin:~$ kill -9 2365

where xmms can be whatever command you wanna stop.

sidgeek@calvin:~$ killall -9 `command`

where command is whichever command you wanna stop.

HTH
Regards
                Carter
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