Hi there, 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? -- Yatsen Ng Den Haag, The netherlands yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- 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/
Try using kill -9 <PID>. Victor On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
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?
-- Yatsen Ng Den Haag, The netherlands yatsenng@casema.net
It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
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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/
Sometimes I run into a process that just doesn't know when to quit.
Well, for stubborn processes, I use "kill -9 {process id}". For zombie processes... I'm honestly not sure. I have not had the opportunity to try to kill the undead, but I hear cremation works well. ;-) Argentium -- 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/
"Argentium G. Tiger" wrote:
Sometimes I run into a process that just doesn't know when to quit.
Well, for stubborn processes, I use "kill -9 {process id}".
For zombie processes... I'm honestly not sure. I have not had the opportunity to try to kill the undead, but I hear cremation works well. ;-)
;-) As far as i'm aware, zombie processes only disappear once their parent process has terminated. For example, that zombie netscape process that can't be killed will disappear when you kill the running parent netscape process. Bye, 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/
We use this list so often to report problems that I wanted to report a success. I received SuSE 6.4 this afternoon, and I had it installed on my Gateway Solo 9300 Laptop in an hour... without a single problem. X, APM, PCMCIA networking, etc. is all A-OK...first time. The only slight glitch was that I had caps-lock turned on accidently when typing in my passwords... it took a few minutes to figure that out. SuSE, ya did a great job! Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics -- 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/
Hi All & Buddy, who wrote: <snip>
We use this list so often to report problems that I wanted to report a success. I received SuSE 6.4 this afternoon, and I had it installed on my Gateway Solo 9300 Laptop in an hour... without a single problem.
X, APM, PCMCIA networking, etc. is all A-OK...first time.
The only slight glitch was that I had caps-lock turned on accidently when typing in my passwords... it took a few minutes to figure that out.
SuSE, ya did a great job!
Buddy Coffey Advanced Electromagnetics
<snip> I found the same with 6.3, on my Solo 9300 & am glad this continues. Carry on the good work guys! :-) Greek Geek. Humor in the Court: Q: Are you sexually active? A: No, I just lie there. -- 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/
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