Monday, January 28, 2013

[LINUX_Newbies] Re: Problem 6: Small questions

 



--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Kirk Bailey wrote:
>
> one is a suggestion, even a request- "Please kill PID 914".
> The other one is a command barked by a drill instructor with a pistol in
> his hand.
> You WILL do it, and you WILL do it NOW.
>

That is one way of looking at it. More accurately 15 is SIGTERM which attempts to terminate a process using its normal shutdown routines. 9 is SIGKILL which abruptly ends the process with no graceful exit routines called. Usually if a process has gone off the rails you've no choice but to kill it. I don't even waste my time typing kill -15 anymore. I mean if the process was behaving I wouldn't be trying to kill it!

To make this post useful people should be aware that X Window has its own process killing mechanism called:

xkill

It turns your cursor into a skull and crossbones, which is pretty cool, then you simply click on the offending window with your Jolly Rodger cursor and end it.

$ man xkill

For more information.

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