On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:01:50AM +0000, thus spake Younes Zouhair:
> > Wade 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?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > b/web
> > > Wade
>
> Hello,
> What I usually do is that:
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> press CTRL+ALT+F2 'to get to tty2 console
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> there login
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> and use pidof or top (take a look at their respective man pages
>
> Younes Zouhair
In an xterm, as root, "ps ax" willshow you which processes are
running. "kill 666" or whatever the process number is, will
kill it.
HTH
Glyn M.
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