Re: [newbie] Killing a program
from the command line do the ps thing from kde press ctrl + esc and select the process to kill - Original Message - From: JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Killing a program On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall Mithrilhall, login is as root, at the command prompt do the processor status command, ps -aef, without the quotes. Look for the process ID# (PID#) of your program in the status listing. Next use the kill command, kill -9 PID#_of_your_program, without the quotes. To test, do the ps -aef again and check the listing to make sure your program is gone. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Killing a program
I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * * _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Killing a program
Hi, I'm not sure I understand the question, but in general to kill a program you can do ps -e to find all the programs running (or do 'ps -e | grep prog name'), then you see its PID (process id) and then kill -9 PID to kill it. HTH Moshe * Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020227 07:47]: I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall * * Mithrilhall's Linux* * Server * * AMD-K2 350MHz* * http://mithrilhall.redirectme.net * * _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall... -- Moshe Kaminsky (Home) 08-9471073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Killing a program
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall Mithrilhall, login is as root, at the command prompt do the processor status command, ps -aef, without the quotes. Look for the process ID# (PID#) of your program in the status listing. Next use the kill command, kill -9 PID#_of_your_program, without the quotes. To test, do the ps -aef again and check the listing to make sure your program is gone. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
