I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance
of Firefox, I get an error message that tells me to either close the
current process or
Donald D Henson wrote:
> I remember from the 'old days' that there is a cli command to
> identify a process id
$ ps auxf | grep firefox | grep
> and another one to kill a process.
$ kill
or, if it fails to die
$ kill -9
There is also a "killall" command that you can use with the process
name
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:58:42 -0600
Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance
>
Donald,
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:58, Donald D Henson wrote:
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> something to do with You Tube.)
By which you mean it has something to do with the Flash
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:58, Donald D Henson wrote:
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance
> of Firefox, I get an err
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:28, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> ...
Note that in most cases, this approach will find the grep process, too.
"Pidof" is the direct way to find process IDs as such.
> The output from this command will list the PIDs of the matching
> processes and the PIDS of the parents of
Le Mardi 20 Mars 2007 17:58, Donald D Henson a écrit :
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance
> of Firefox, I get an err
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:58:42 -0600
> Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
>> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
>> something to do with You Tube.) When I t
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > kill -9
>
> Absolutely a bad idea. Many programs have clean-up operations to
> perform. This guarantees those clean-up actions will not take place.
>
> Signal TERM or 15 is the clean way to kill a process. Only resort to
> KILL or 9
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:36, you wrote:
> Clicking in the close box of a window does not send SIGTERM, it uses the
> X event mechanism to inform the process that owns the window of the
> user's action.
Yup, except that is not what we're talking about here... we don't have
a
window with
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:17:52 -0500
M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > > kill -9
> >
> > Absolutely a bad idea. Many programs have clean-up operations to
> > perform. This guarantees those clean-up actions will not take place.
>
What a rapid response from so many. The best part is that most of the
advice is consistent. It seems that I have been dealing with the GUI too
much. I should use the CLI more often. Thanks for all the help.
Donald D. Henson, Managing Director
West El Paso Information Network
The "Non-Initiation o
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:56, Robert Lewis wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:58:42 -0600
> >
> > Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> >> will not die nor will it display anything. (The proble
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:12:13 -0600
Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What a rapid response from so many. The best part is that most of the
> advice is consistent. It seems that I have been dealing with the GUI too
> much. I should use the CLI more often. Thanks for all the help.
The CLI
Donald D Henson wrote:
Hi Donald,
> I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> something to do with You Tube.) When I try to start up another instance
> of Firefox, I get an error message that tel
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 14:51 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> Donald D Henson wrote:
>
> Hi Donald,
>
> > I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox process
> > will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem seems to have
> > something to do with You Tube.) When
whereas, I am sure there are 1000 reasons why it is not a good script,
. . . the following script "kl" usually works :-
...
"kl"
___
#!/bin/sh
#
# kill process/program
#
while true
do
kill -9 `ps aux | grep -i $1 | awk '{ print $2 }'` sleep 2
done
On Saturday 24 March 2007 07:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> whereas, I am sure there are 1000 reasons why it is not a good
> script,
>
> . . . the following script "kl" usually works :-
Do you actually use that script?
The process IDs produced will include that of the grep command, which
will b
On Saturday 24 March 2007 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> whereas, I am sure there are 1000 reasons why it is not a good script,
...
> kill -9
...
There is 1000 and first, not to use kill -9 as a regular procedure.
All users that render their system useless because they used too often
kill
On Sat 24 Mar 2007 15:03, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Do you actually use that script?
- indeed - yes - works OK most-times
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On Saturday 24 March 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> Donald D Henson wrote:
>
> Hi Donald,
>
> > I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox
> > process will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem
> > seems to have something to do with You Tube.) When I try to
On Saturday 24 March 2007 11:23:13 pm BandiPat wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> > Donald D Henson wrote:
> >
> > Hi Donald,
> >
> > > I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox
> > > process will not die nor will it display anything. (The prob
On Saturday 24 March 2007 20:23, BandiPat wrote:
>
>
> Also, if you guys love "top" a lot, take a look at "htop"! ...
That looks interesting, but I cannot seem to find one feature of top
that I like to use, namely top's "n" command which allows you to limit
the number of processes shown.
On Sunday 25 March 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2007 20:23, BandiPat wrote:
> >
> >
> > Also, if you guys love "top" a lot, take a look at "htop"! ...
>
> That looks interesting, but I cannot seem to find one feature of top
> that I like to use, namely top's "n" comman
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:23 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
> On Saturday 24 March 2007, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> > Donald D Henson wrote:
> >
> > Hi Donald,
> >
> > > I seem to have gotten myself into a situation where a Firefox
> > > process will not die nor will it display anything. (The problem
Gnome System Monitor also works great.
On one machine I use Gnome a lot so It helps to have something handy on
the tool bar. I keep it on the lower one.
CWSIV
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