On Wednesday 10 Aug 2005 16:30, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On August 10, 2005 05:26, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2005 01:16, et wrote: > > ... > > > Killing them left processes behind > > that refused to be killed, and I had to reboot. > > ... > > > Anne > > Did you try "kill -9"? an ordinary kill sends a signal to the process > asking it to kill itself. If the process is hung, this may not work. > With the -9 option, kill tells the kernel to kill the process, without > giving the process a chance to clean up. If this fails (and I have seen > it do so on rare occasions), there's something seriously wrong, and a > reboot is definitely in order.
I can never remember the correct way to use kill. First I tried the gui way, with ksysguard, then when that didn't work I tried variations on 'kill -pid nnnn' all without success. So should I have used 'kill -9 nnnnn'? Anne
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