Killing applications.

[HaywireMac]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:01:12 -0700
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> uttered:

> 
> or 'killall applicationname' will kill all instances of
> applicationname.

can you just kill by name? I thought you had to do it by PID...

I always liked this one for processes that wouldn't die:

as root:

kill -9 `pidof "appname"`

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