Re: Guide / Tools
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 15:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Mi, 21 nov 12, 09:25:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > >
> > > > > top
> > >
> > > In this context
> > >
> > > killall -9 -w <software_name>
> > >
> > > is very helpful.
> >
> > Just stumbled across:
> >
> > http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#uuk9letter
> >
> > I prefer 'killall <name>' (which sends 15 by default)
>
> Hard to say what's better. A newbie might be surprised if kill <name>
A typo killall
> won't stop something bad.
>
> My "start audio session scripts" start with
> killall -9 -w [...], so what ever should happen, I only need to start
> the script again, but I agree, if I have to manually kill something I
> start with a simple killall or kill.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
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