On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I'm trying to kill a process by it's name, not by pid, but, can not figure > out how to specify the process name to kill; > > I can kill the proces OK by pid , I just do not seem to get it by its' name, > what am i missing: > > man kill
try: man -k kill This will lead you in the right direction. If it does not then look at man killall and beware... -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
