This answer invariably comes up on Unix-related lists. This answer suggests that you use a howitzer to blow away what might be only a field mouse.
kill -9 is a *last resort*. Study up on signals. Start with no value at all; if that kill doesn't work you progress through stronger and stronger signals until finally, if all other signals have failed you reluctantly decide that the field mouse is in fact utterly resistant. Then you go for the howitzer. Lots of programs written for the Unix environment will trap various signals. An extremely common one is -3 (KILL, the same as ^C from the keyboard.) A program can trap the signal then ***do housekeeping*** and exit gracefully. -9 *cannot* be caught. You increase your chances of causing the interrupted program to have difficulty starting again if it stores state on disk--things like hidden files that it uses for its own purposes and normally deletes on exit--log file entries...whatever. Be civilized. Use -9 only in extremis. Note also that named values are considered by some to be superior to numbers. See /usr/include/signal.h. --emk > Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:22:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alberto Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I kill jobs? > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command > is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. > > On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? > > > > Alberto Ruiz > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
