cannot kill a process

Leo Cacciari leo.cacciari at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 15:24:07 UTC 2008


Il giorno ven, 11/01/2008 alle 17.32 -0800, NoOp ha scritto:
> On 01/11/2008 04:42 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've tried to kill the process either with quit or kill but the process are 
> > still there, listed in the process table (I can see them with ps).
> > 
> > Luca
> > 
> 
> Using htop might be easier:
> 
> sudo apt-get install htop
> 
> then from a terminal:
> 
> htop
> 
> F9 to kill the selected process.
> 
> 
> 
I think is simply a matter of the process being run as root and the OP
issuing the kill command as regular user. Simply

sudo killall process-name

should do the trick

-- 
Leo 'TheHobbit' Cacciari

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