Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...
I was watching a divx 5 movie in WMP (version 6.4.09.1109) when my movie froze. After a little while I hit close and got a "not responding" message, so I forced a close. Then I opened the movie again ...
I want to create a shell script that can kill a process without having knowledge of the PID.<BR><BR>This is what I do now:<BR><BR>%: top<BR> (find process w/PID)<BR>%: q<BR>%: kill -1 PID<BR><BR><BR>I ...
The kill command provides a lot more functionality than just terminating processes. You can use it to send any of more than 60 signals to processes and what happens next depends on the signal, the ...
If you have a process ID but aren't sure whether it's valid, you can use the most unlikely of candidates to test it: the kill command. If you don't see any reference to this on the kill(1) man page, ...
When you close the Firefox Internet browser, you expect the application to stop running completely. Sometimes, though, certain Firefox files continue to run in the background, causing your computer to ...