'kill' is the command line version. Have a look at the man pages for more on kill. As noted, -9 = SIGKILL which is basically stop it now and don't give process time to clean up etc...
/paul On 5/12/05, James Finnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 12 May 2005 00:03, Caleb Marcus wrote: > > How did you purposely crash Linux? > > > I did not crash "Linux" itself. That would take me hours just to recover > from it. > > I used KDE System guard and selected all the processes and then killed > them. Now, I saw Paul's response as well. I do not know what signal the > "Kill" button uses in KDE System Guard. But I would think -9 or SIGKILL. > If -3 for SIGQUIT or -15 for SIGTERM then I would expect OOo to prompt me > about saving the file. It did not, it just disappeared, leaving the > recovery info behind. > > The backup directory did not contain other recovery info for all the files > I have worked with either. So I would expect the recovery info to be > deleted upon proper termination. > > James > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
