On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:05, Ester Muñoz wrote: > El jue, 01-07-2004 a las 18:00, James Lawrence escribió: > > stupid me, forgot how to stop a application that is stuct kill ?? i need > > to do it from the terminal correct? > > thanks in advance > > > > Hi some of the wiser ones might correct me, but I thought I have to > answer the one question I could: > > kill -9 pid Always make sure that a simple kill works before taking out the Big Bad Hammer that's known as kill -9. I mean, always try "kill <pid>" first. If it doesn't work, then do a "kill -9". The reason is "kill -9" blows up the process in a way that's not too friendly to the rest of your system or to other systems that communicate to it via the network. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/
