Hello Tom, Sunday, June 15, 2003, 7:39:29 AM, you wrote:
TB> As you can see 'x' is a heck of a lot more than 'X'. Yes, indeed. :-) I see. TB> First, you generally only want to use 'kill' on specific TB> applications that can't be stopped more normally, not systems like TB> X. Aha - sound like good advice. TB> Second, 'kill -9' is a last resort, and should be used sparingly TB> and carefully, and never as root on your user owned apps. Another aha. :-) I did this as root, and perhaps that is why it killed the machine. >> I tried running ps aux | grep appname, but it gives me an error. TB> Was this after your 'kill -9 x'? No, this is any time. Even when I try to make an alias, it says 'command aux not found'. Is this another alias? >> Does linux treat alises as (some alias) appname? TB> Not sure what you mean, It seems that 'appname' is passing a 'variable' to the alias. The form (some alias) appname would imply that it passes the variable to the entire alias command, but if you typed the entire thing from a prompt, it might need to have appname at some other point in the input. (I hope this makes more sense.) TB> Probly be a good idea to read the various Bash how-to's. Yeah - I'm going to have to learn more about the commands (all 2200+ of them). :-) -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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