killall -9 appname 
works well for me.

rgds

Franki

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>kill -9 pid as root.
>
>Tony.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anarky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 7:42 AM
>To: mandrake newbie
>Subject: [newbie] killin'
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>    normally I use 'gnome-system-monitor' to kill apps, but now an X app
>won't stop with that even. So I do "ps aux | grep app_name" and then try
>"kill pid" ... but still nothing will happen. Any idea? last time I 
>fixed it via a reboot ... but I thought linux wasn't like that ...
>    greets
>  
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