For particularly stubborn processes, use:
kill -9 PID
--- bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have just had to reboot to kill two processes that
> i otherwise couldn't
> kill; cdda2wav and cdrecord, both were left running
> after xcdroast crashed,
> and although i issued the command 'kill (pid here)'
> they were still running,
> repeating the command did not give the 'no such pid'
> error and ksysguard
> still showed them running with the same pid, is
> there some other guaranteed
> way to kill processes, i needed to kill them because
> i was unable to restart
> xcdroast and it seemed obvious that these two errant
> processes were the
> reason why,
>
> tia bascule
>
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