Kill command

[Greg Booth]

On 7/19/07, Trevor <tpankonien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  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
>
>
>  To kill Thunderbird I would do 'ps aux | grep hunderbird'
>
>  I generally like to ignore the first character when searching for a process
> as very rarely the process will start with a capital letter but if it does
> you won't find the process
>
>  It should now list all the processes running that match the string
> 'hunderbird'
>
>  The second column will give you the PID to issue to the kill command.
> Looking at my machine, Thunderbird has 3 processes running so I would issue
> the command 'kill' followed by the PIDs separated by a space. (ie kill 12345
> 12346 12348)
>
>  Hope that helps,
>
>  Trevor

There ya go ! What he said !!