kill?

[BIS]

Hallo again ...

with the 'top' command I can see a process that I didn't stop properly, just contrl-z.

How do I kill it? I tried the man kill page, but don't quite get it. Suppose the PID is 16448, the following doesn't do it:

kill 16448

Could someone enlighten this newbie... ?

 

[jsauce]

make sure you are logged in as root. If it still doesn't die, just shutdown now -r to reboot the machine. John D. Saucier
jsauce@magicguild.com
Certified Technician
Network Administrator

 

[sleipnir214]

When you don't specify a signal, kill may send the process a signal the process doesn't recognize.

If you're sure you want to completely shutdown the process, issue:

kill -9 <process id>


see 'man kill' for more information. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[marsd]

Please do not shutdown your machine.
You do not have to, this is not windows.

kill -l will give you a list of all the signames that you
can send to a process.
kill -signame pid number, will send this signal.

 

[Norwich]

With CNTL-Z, the jobs are stopped so may not respond to a regular 'kill'.
Also, if you CNTL-Z stopped them, then you can list the stopped jobs with &quot;jobs&quot;.

These can then be started in the forground with &quot;fg <job no.>&quot; so you can kill it with CNTL-C - or you can run them in the background with &quot;bg <job no.> so you can forground them later.