Kill command

[Robin Taylor]

Firstly, in KDE there's the performance monitor, which is a GUI implementation 
behaving similar to windows task manager. From there you can kill programs 
(look for thunderbird or thunderbird-bin)

Secondly, if you want to do it on the command line:
ps -a | grep thunderbird 
(the | being a pipe, not an L or i)
will give you the line, choose the process ID from there, the | being a pipe, 
not an L or i. 

Then type 
kill -15 <process id> 
this will allow the process to shut itself down and is the preffered option, should this not 
work use  
kill -9 <process id>
this is a hard kill and will always stop the process.

Rob

On Thursday 19 July 2007 20:15, Tim M wrote:
> > Ok, started typing, start not making sense.
> >
> > Go here:   http://www.bellevuelinux.org/kill.html
> >
> > Never give up, never surrender !
> >
> > Greg
>
> Well, I am not ready to give up quite yet. I went to the  site above. From
> what I gather you need to know the PID number for a given program. I
> founded the link to "process identification number" and got blurry eyed. It
> didn't tell me, in a way that I could understand, how you find a list of
> programs and the PID. I ran cat /proc/1/status and got lots of information
> but didn't understand what it was trying to tell me. For instance I didn't
> see any program that I have running in the list. So I am still lost :)
>
> Tm