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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > how to kill it after I am done
>
> Use ps to find the process number and then
> kill that number.  If it doesn't die, kill
> it again with the -9 parameter.

Things like agetty and pppd and Xvesa have been refusing to die until I 
name them and kill pidof.  What does -9 do?  Why does kill pidof work 
when kill number does not.

> > Or just kill pidof?
>
> If you know the exact name of the process:
> -----------------
> kill `pidof name`
> -----------------

That works it sometimes takes several times.  I may have loaded the same 
thing more than once but ps only lists it once.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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