On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 at 01:08PM -0500, Nathan Carter wrote: > Yes, but I'm running it in the background (and then logging off). So > that process is not in the foreground anymore. (Furthermore, the sage > process actually starts lots of others, in a linear chain, so "ps ax" > lists lots of sage- and sage-wiki-related stuff.)
If the server isn't doing anything, in my experience it's fairly safe to start killing important-looking processes until they all disappear. A more responsible way to do this is to use the `pstree' command to identify the root server process and kill that; when it shuts down, the rest of the processes will follow it. A *yet more* responsible way is to learn how to use start-stop-daemon (I think it's only on Debian-derived systems), which can write pid files and shut things down gracefully. The easiest way to be responsible, though, is to use screen. :) That's what I do. Dan -- --- Dan Drake <[email protected]> ----- KAIST Department of Mathematical Sciences ------- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake
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