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Re: killed process still on-screen



On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:33:25PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I locked up mutt & jove while editing a message.  I killed them from
| top but cannot get use of tty1 back which still shows the process.

Does 'top' or 'ps' still show the process?  Which signal did you use
to kill it?  Use SIGKILL (9) if it doesn't die from SIGTERM (15).

See signal(7)  (that is, run 'man 7 signal').

-D

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