Re: How do I kill jobs?

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Paul McDermott <paul@braille.uwo.ca> writes:

> 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.  

I'd recommend just trying "kill (pid)" first.  This sends a less
agressive signal to the program, which might allow it to do some
important cleanup before it goes down.  If that doesn't work, then try
"kill -9 (pid)".

-- 
Rob


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