Basically it is only a root login who can kill processes. You can
see all of them with something like ps -al from a user login but you can't
kill any but your own.
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Mark Dohojda wrote:
> Hello all :)
>
> How can I kill a process from another virtual terminal (tty1 or tty2).
> When I use command ps (or ps aux) I don't see any processes that were
> (are) running on the tty0 terminal. For example lets say that I am
> running a program that crashed and froze my machine, but I can switch to
> tty1 (via ALT-F2) what can I do to kill the process on the first
> terminal?
>
> Thank you
> Marek
>
Best wishes
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