> Hi, > > I think the jobs were hanged up there, [...] > before I could use the ps au | grep nvt | awk '{print $2} | sed > 's/^.*$/ kill -9 &/g' > kill.sh and run kill.sh. > > now ps au does not show me this info any more. [...] > > what's the alternative choice, Hi Lina, You can install the procps package, then use pkill nvt Like kill, pkill takes a signal number as an option, so more aggressively: pkill -9 nvt -- Cheers, Clive