>
> Truly, I'm not trying to flood the list with stupid questions, it just comes
> so naturally to me.
>
> 1. There must be a command out there that translates the name of a process
> into it's PID, what is it?
>
> 2. How could I kill all processes that have a certain name? What about
> killing all processes with a certain pattern in their name, how could I do
> that?
>
> I'm thinking:
>
> # kill | (trans_processid *pat[]tern*)
> ^-whatever that command is
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dan Browning
> Network Administrator
> Cyclone Computer Systems
>
ps will show you the PID ofthe proccess your running, ps -aux show all the
processes running. man ps
you could use the killall command, If i want to kill the pppd it would be
killall pppd
This will work for other programs as well
