G'day... kill -9 <pid>
Where <pid> is the process id. Would be good to correct the cause of the problem though. ;) :) A man kill will help, as it explains the different kill levels that you pass as an argument. 9 kills a process without caring what state it is in. All the best, and have fun! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 11:39 PM Subject: [SLUG] Killing a process that won't die > Well, this reminds me of the scene from "The Party" with Peter Sellers > when he's playing the bugle in a war movie and just won't die even after > his own side start shooting at him :-) > > I have a process/thread started by RhythmBox (Gnome2 music manager - > looks great, hasn't playe da tune for me yet) that has grabbed control > of /dev/dsp and will not let go. > > I've tried kill and killall as my user and root and it will not die. > > Can anyone tell me how else I may be able to exterminate it? > > TIA. > > > -- > ************** > * Simon Wong * > ************** > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
