how to kill this process?

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 20:35:27 +0100
jazzmuzik <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:

> 
> I usually stop process with something like 'kill -9 <id>'. There are
> other methods I've seen.

I tried that, and other variants

> You could shut down cron altogether with this:
> 
> /etc/init.d/cron stop

I don't think that would stop the 'sh' process which is causing the
problem.

> cron merely launches other programs based on the clock, so you could
> either stop whatever program cron has launched,

but it's this that I can't stop.

 or edit the crontab
> file to make it stop launching a particular program.

I don't want to lose the functionality, just to have it work properly :)

-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/