killing a process (again), ports

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 23:18:44 UTC 2009


On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:04:43 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Thufir wrote:
>> thufir at arrakis:~$ sudo kill 5088 -9
>> kill: No such process
> 
> There is no process -9. I suppose you meant:
> 
> sudo kill -9 5088
> 
> 
> Nils


Are you sure it matters?

thufir at arrakis:~$ 
thufir at arrakis:~$ ps -ae | grep fire
 5461 ?        00:00:04 firefox
thufir at arrakis:~$ 
thufir at arrakis:~$ kill 5461 -9
bash: kill: (-9) - No such process
thufir at arrakis:~$ 
thufir at arrakis:~$ ps -ae | grep fire
thufir at arrakis:~$ 




Generally, I think you can put the switches before or after the argument 
(if I'm using the correct terminology).  At least, I generally find that 
I can move them around.

I think that the process which I was describing is somehow "different" 
than a normal process.


-Thufir





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