On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Peter Payne wrote:

> Question for smarter Mac-heads than me. I can quit apps using "killall" via 
> scripting the terminal, for example if Transmit has frozen I can use "killall 
> transmit" to kill and relaunch it. (I do this in scripts that run in the 
> background, to make sure the scripts are running overnight.) However, no 
> force in the universe will make Filemaker Pro die with "killall." Any idea 
> what I would need to do? Any variation of "killall 'Filemaker Pro'" or 
> "killall 'Filemaker Pro.app'" returns "no matching processes belonging to you 
> were found." Is there some magic trick to this?

The correct syntax is "killall FileMaker\ Pro"

Why are you killing FileMaker via the Terminal?

-corn


Cornelius Walker
The Proof Group
http://proofgroup.com/

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