On Wednesday 10 Aug 2005 19:28, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > Yes, with kill it must be the pid. With killall it must be the process > name. Killall is very handy if you want to kill all processes with the > same name, regardless of how many of them there might be. Don't use it > if you only want to kill one of many. > > It's best to try a regular kill or killall first. This gives the > process(es) being killed a chance to clean up (flush file caches, remove > locks, ...), so it's less likely to corrupt things. But if that doesn't > work, adding the -9 option is the next step.
OK - thanks for the explanation Anne
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