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