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:
Use killall to terminate something by it's name. killall will terminate EVERY process under the name you specify. Otherwise, you ps aux | grep <program_name> to find out the pid. - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
