Re: [aclug-L] two minor questions

["Cory T. Lamb" <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Jesse Kaufman wrote:

> any ideas why my computer hangs on shutting down the gpm stuff when i
> reboot?  i've let it sit for a 1/2 an hour, and it never got through...

Not quite sure on that.

> also, how do i completely kill a process... when i do a kill (via
> windowmaker), it kills the vis, but when i do a ps, it still shows
The best way to seek and destroy unwanted processes is: (say I'm looking
for vi)
#ps auxww |grep vi

this lists all the info about all the process running with vi anywhere in
their name.
Then to kill the pesky little fella simply apply one of these:

#kill -9 1229

where 1229 is the pid that vi is running at.  the -9 kills all remnants of
the process and stops it cold.
HIH.

~Cory

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                            Cory T. Lamb
                        <ctl4u@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Media Lab Manager                                 Chief Engineer
Information Media Services                         KBCU FM-88.1

                    Bethel College  N. Newton KS

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