Killing applications.

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:13, HaywireMac wrote:
> 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"`


Nah nah nah - ferinstance...

Say "foomatic-rip" is running and eating up your preshie wittle
wesources...so you can open a term and do:

killall -KILL foomatic-rip

(unfortunately, it will spawn again - like a Canadian Hockey player)

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