On Thursday 11 April 2002 01:09, James Thomas wrote: > kill -9 doesn't always work, regardless of whether or not you are logged on > as root or not - and also regardless of whether or not the process is > "owned" by another process. Sometimes it doesn't work. > On those cases, I usually just reboot mostly because man kill doesn't ever > seem to imply that it doesn't work and couldn't find anything about it > online. If there's an easier way to do it, please let me know. :)
If I remember rightly from my early Enlightenment days, they also had the options "nuke" and "annihalate". Were these variations on "kill" or separate commands - I don't seem to have them. Xkill works well on most naughty X-apps. Restarting the X-server is also a good thing to try instead of rebooting, but if a program is hogging resources, it doesn't always work. Thank God for journaling filesystems - when I get really pissed off, I just hit that restart button. Sir Robin
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