You're close. When you're looking at the screen and "top" is running you
would type "k", and it will prompt you for the "PID". type in the number
that you've mentioned and hit enter. There is another way that is far
easier and that is if you've got a terminal window open type "kpm" and hit
enter. When the program comes up find the CPU hog, right click on the
little monster and choose "kill" from the menu. I love that program.
kpm = KDE Process Management
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Mark
Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle...
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Surprisingly on Tue, 31 Oct 2000 Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG had this...
> I'm a very-newbie, but the command is kill and the Process IDentification
> argument is the number listed to the left of the offending process when you
> type "top". So, if the CPU hog was listed as process 17, you would type:
>
> kill 17
>
>
> Someone correct me if I am leading this poor soul astray...
>
> -Carlton
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..
>
> In a message dated 30-Oct-00 16:30:14 Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > kill the_PID_of_the_program
>
> i think you should find a better way of quoting commands because that just
> confuses me
>
> should i based on this type
> kill the_pid?
> or could it be
> kill pid
>
> believe it or not some people get lost if you post extra comments into the
> command string, and spend more time on trial and error
>
>
