Wednesday, January 23, 2013

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Problem 6: Small questions

 



--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "highskywhy@..." wrote:
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> Problem 6: Small questions
> Good morning
> What is the difference in the taskmanager
> between
> kill
> and
> terminate?

Graphical programs are often just front ends for terminal applications. In a terminal type:

man kill

kill is probably kill -9 and terminate is likely kill -15

> *
> Today the firefox was blocked.
> I started a new terminal:
> pidof firefox
>
> task id 1234 5678
> kill 1234
> kill 5678
> But the tasks continued running.
> How can I stop firefox?

Try:

killall -9 firefox

Type:

man killall

for more information.

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>
>
> Regards
> Sophie
>

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