[PLUG] How to kill firefox.bin

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 21:31:19 UTC 2007


# from John Jason Jordan
# on Sunday 07 October 2007 14:17:

>System Monitor says it is process 15852, so I just entered
>that in top as the process to kill. Still no joy.

I think top sends sig 15 (term) by default.  To kill it dead, you want 
signal 9 (kill).

>Those are the only ways I know of to kill something. Can someone
>suggest a tool with a heavier payload?

  kill -9 15852

See the manpage for kill and killall.

--Eric
-- 
"But as to modern architecture, let us drop it and let us take
modernistic out and shoot it at sunrise."
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