On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:35 am, GriffinRider wrote:
OK. Open up a terminal window and use ps -aux to find the process number. (Pipe it to grep with a string you're looking for to find it without looking at the often long list.) Then type kill with the process id. If that doesn't work, use kill -9 on it; which will stop anything no matter what.
Care to provide an example of you would pipe something to grep? You might use an example of ps -aux if you like. :)
ps -aux | grep hal9000 That will give you the pid (process id) of proccesses that include the string hall9000 Then you use kill on it, for example, if the pid is 99999 kill 99999 Wait a bit, then if it still looks frozen... kill -9 99999
Also, what ***all*** does kill -9 kill?
kill -9 will kill any process I think, the signal can't be trapped.
It's good but it's not a total beginner's manual, you'll need some other tutorials to learn the commands you'll need, such as ps, kill, and everything else. O'Reilly (www.oreilly.com) publishes a lot of good Linux and Unix books, some fun to read, others dry (but well written) references.
I've had, for awhile, an older edition of "Using Linux, Special Edition".
I haven't read it. Another thing you might want to consider is browsing the references that come with SuSE; type in "man command" or "info command" for generic short reference material. Several PDF books (that are mostly dated) are installable, and also there's documentation for most packages under /usr/share/doc/packages. Also, some other documentation is reachable via the SuSE help item; the geeko life-raft icon in KDE will take you to it.
I'm picking up some things there (reading room material :), and it seems like a fairly good reference book, if perhaps a bit dated (I'm not certain, here).
If you'd like something truely dated but interesting, try Kernighan and Pike's "The Unix Programming Environment".