Bogdan Cristea wrote:

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 08:44:16 am C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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With my relative meager memory (computer ;) ) I regularly run into problems when I receive a Skype call from abroad. In case of an incoming call I kill in a hurry all the running programs one by one. I wonder if I could make a button which would kill all regularly running programs in one sweep. Is there any negative effect if I would kill KMail, Firefox and Motv with a bash file? How would such a bash file look? I am not an expert in bash, only a happy user.

I do not see any incovenience in doing that. Your script should be like this:

ps -e | grep kmail #get the process ID kill -s SIGKILL pid

kill $(pidof kmail) $(pidof firefox) etc etc. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-0.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Bogdan Cristea said the following on 01/20/2011 02:51 AM:

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 08:44:16 am C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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With my relative meager memory (computer ;) ) I regularly run into problems when I receive a Skype call from abroad. In case of an incoming call I kill in a hurry all the running programs one by one. I wonder if I could make a button which would kill all regularly running programs in one sweep. Is there any negative effect if I would kill KMail, Firefox and Motv with a bash file? How would such a bash file look? I am not an expert in bash, only a happy user.

I do not see any incovenience in doing that. Your script should be like this:

ps -e | grep kmail #get the process ID kill -s SIGKILL pid

Some things like firefox have a script that starts them as well as the binary. For that reason I'd suggest using "pkill' instead. ARGS="kmail fireox motv" for i in $ARGS do pkill $i done You may need to specify the kill signal. See the manual page for pkill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

* Jos van Kan [01-20-11 17:34]:

Op 20-01-11 14:19, Anton Aylward schreef:

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ARGS="kmail fireox motv"

Would that be the heavy duty version of firefox?

Heavy Duty ???? That would be all instances of "firefox" ps aux |grep firefox -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 01/20/2011 05:45 PM, Greg Freemyer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Jos van Kan [01-20-11 17:34]:

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Op 20-01-11 14:19, Anton Aylward schreef:

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ARGS="kmail fireox motv"

Would that be the heavy duty version of firefox?

Maybe fireox is somehow related to "When the Ox is in the ditch, you have to get out and push!"

Trouble is, I don't what you do when the Ox is in the ditch and its on fire.

Call all of your friends over for an Ox roast. :-)) -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org