--- In [email protected], Kirk Bailey wrote: > > one is a suggestion, even a request- "Please kill PID 914". > The other one is a command barked by a drill instructor with a pistol in > his hand. > You WILL do it, and you WILL do it NOW. >
That is one way of looking at it. More accurately 15 is SIGTERM which attempts to terminate a process using its normal shutdown routines. 9 is SIGKILL which abruptly ends the process with no graceful exit routines called. Usually if a process has gone off the rails you've no choice but to kill it. I don't even waste my time typing kill -15 anymore. I mean if the process was behaving I wouldn't be trying to kill it! To make this post useful people should be aware that X Window has its own process killing mechanism called: xkill It turns your cursor into a skull and crossbones, which is pretty cool, then you simply click on the offending window with your Jolly Rodger cursor and end it. $ man xkill For more information. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
