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
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