Good point...
I've never actually had to kill a process that wasn't out of control already, so
signal 15 doesn't jump into my mind
too quickly!
--Greg
> Nathan Slippen wrote:
> >
> > You can do a 'kill -9 pid' and that will kill the pid.
> > To view pid's you can use 'ps -eaf | more.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > At 07:52 PM 7/24/00 -0700, you wrote:
> > >How Do you kill a process and view them, I need multiple answers
>
> Sorry for jumping in here, but I've not seen it mentioned so...
>
> I think you're supposed to use "kill -15 pid" (SIGTERM, I think)
> first, as its an elegant, graceful way of shutting down. Using
> "kill -9 pid" is slamming it closed, forcefully, or so I'm told.
>
> In other words, try -15 first, then -9 as a last resort. ;-)
>
> Somebody jump in here and correct me, if wrong...!
>
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> Dark><Lord
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