Yatsen Ng wrote:
Sometimes I run into a process that just doesn't know when to quit. I can use the kill command all I want but it won't do any good. Take for example Netscape. Sometimes it freezes and I'll use xkill to take it out of its misery. When I restart it I'll get an error message stating that another user is running Netscape using my files under process ID 437 (for example). When I issue the kill command nothing will happen. There's also a zombie process running that's equally stubborn. How do I deal with those?
I always used to use a 'kill -9 <pid>' until I discovered the CTRL-ALT-ESC-click-on-the-window-you-want-to-kill method. However, I discovered that that doesn't totally kill netscape off (it must be sending a different signal instead of a 9 (SIGKILL)). Because of this I've just moved bad to my old 'kill -9' routine. The easiest way is probably just 'killall -9 netscape'. Hope that helps, Chris -- Apologies to everyone who has been waiting for replies off me over the past few weeks - I've been away from my computer. I'll try to catch up with my email over the coming days, but don't be surprised if you get a reply in a month's time... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/