--- Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 7:41 am, Anarky wrote: > > 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 > > xkill > or > kill -KILL pid > > Just "kill pid" is not hard enough, it just sends > the equivilant of a > Ctrl-C to the app. The KILL signal is not trappable, > it should kill > anything. xkill is easier if the app has a window > open; click on the > window and the app dies. > > -- > Richard Urwin > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
I seem to remember (from my unix days many a year ago) that if you wanted kill to work reliably you had to attach the -7 flag to it. I am not sure of the forma and I havent been able to get my linux box running yet to check the man pages on kill but try that. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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