Re: [LIH] forcefully stopping command

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Syed Khader Vali wrote:

> This is what I do on my machine.
> sidgeek@calvin:~$ pidof xmms
> 2365
> sidgeek@calvin:~$ kill -9 2365
> 

Or just kill -9 `pidof xmms`

> where xmms can be whatever command you wanna stop.
> sidgeek@calvin:~$ killall -9 `command`
> where command is whichever command you wanna stop.

In some cases (such as sendmail) it is advisable to do 
kill -HUP `head -n1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

        -ssuresh




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