On Wednesday 26 January 2005 12:07 pm, Paul wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:27, Dave Needham wrote: > > -- here we go again.can some one help me unlock urpmi datebase as it is > > locked. > > su > > ps -A > > kill ???? (replace ?s with number of urpmi or whatever) > > is the long way, can't think of the short way at the moment in console, type "top" you get a page of whatever is eating the most of your mem or proc power (in top, just type a capital M or P (no need for 'enter') to change the view from what eats the most CPU cycles to what is eating the most memory. once you decide what program you want to kill, hit the 'k' and then type in the proccess number and then hit enter. hit the space bar to refresh the readings and if the program you wanted to kill does not disappear, you may have to try a k then a 9 then your process number, as kill -15 is the default in top. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org"
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