Re: killing a job

[Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>]

The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:34:21, Adam Wolfe wrote :
> "ps -ef | grep vlc" should show you the pids.
> 
> I'd tried to 'kill' them first.  If that doesn't work I usually go
> straight for a "kill -9".
> "killall vlc" might also work, but I'm not positive.
> 
> On 02/01/2013 06:29 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have 3 instances of vlc that I can not stop. Top does not give me their 
> > process number. How can I get ithem to kill them with kill +process
> > number? Or is there athere a other way to do it?
> > Thierry

Thank you to both of you, Adam and Miles.
Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does not 
kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!!
Thierry