<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Tim M wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:9fc2408f0707191315j6904e8c1ie015f7bde4b1bfaa@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ok, started typing, start not making sense. Go here: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.bellevuelinux.org/kill.html"> http://www.bellevuelinux.org/kill.html</a> Never give up, never surrender ! Greg</blockquote> <div> 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 </div> </div> </blockquote> 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 </body> </html>