On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have found an occasion or two to use the 'Ctrl, Alt, Backspace'
> command a couple of times which has been a saving grace, but I have only
> had a need to kill a runaway (unresponsive) app, rather than my xserver.
> My question, is there a way to kill an app and not restart my xserver?
> Also would this apply to a runaway process as well?
>
The command is kill and there are several ways to do it
kill ??? where ??? is the process id
kill `/sbin/pidof ???` where ??? is the name of the process (those are backquotes in
the command and you do need them)
run ktop, then locate and kill the process
> Thanks,
>
> b/web
> Wade
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Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
