Re: Killing a process that won't die

[Bob Chiodini <chiodr kscems ksc nasa gov>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 13:07, John Nichel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I'm trying to kill a process on my box, but when I try 'kill xxxx', 
> it doesn't go away.  Is there another way to get rid of it, short of 
> restarting the box?
> 
> -- 
> John C. Nichel
> KegWorks.com
> 716.856.9675
john kegworks com

kill -9 xxxx is SIGKILL should do it.

Bob...