On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:38:42AM -0500, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > Is there a way to monitor the various servers running on my > machine from KDE ?
Have not used KDE for long, IIRC, there used to be something called kps for process monitoring on the K-menu itself to view processes that are running. You can view them on console/ xterm with: 'ps -aef | less' > I mean, on startup, httpd, postreqsql and a host of other > servers are started but I do not know how to shut them > down. Please help. > Every distro has its own method of starting/ stopping servi- ces. Most of the processes you are talking about, are start- ed with root privileges at boot up ... and should be removed as "root". Use the recommended method for your distro. To do it manually (in any distro), three LOST snippets are placed below. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Killing a Process (#1) LOST #055 To kill a running process (app or daemon) : #ps -ae | grep process-name This outputs a number (process-id) and process-name #kill process-id (Note: NOT process-name) ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Killing a Process (#2) LOST #080 At times 'kill <process-no>' fails, in which case, forcefully kill it with 'kill -9 <process-no>' ... WARNING: This method does not give the process any chance to quit normally, and in apps like netscape may lose contents of bookmarks and address book entries. The <process-no> is identified with ps command. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>####################################### : : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Killing a Process (#3) LOST #150 To kill a process by name, use the killall command. To kill a failed fetchmail session on tty1 as an user, log into another console, and issue the command "killall fetchmail". Be careful with this command as root, since all instances of the program used by *all* users will be killed !!! ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
