On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 2:29 PM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> While working on getting the correct nVidia driver on my Slackware > machine Firefox appeared to hang. It won't respond to attempts to close > it via the gui, so I tried kill. I used ps ax | grep firefox to learn > the process to kill. But when I try to kill it, as root, I get an error > message telling me there is no such process. Sure enough, when I use ps > ax again, firefox has a different process. After trying yet again to > kill the process I learned from the second ps ax, and discovering that > that process doesn't exist, I tried ps ax a couple of times in a row. > Each time I get a different process number. > > How do I kill a process like that? > > Many Linux distributions now come with a utility called "killall" which will kill all processes matching a given name. Or: reboot. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
