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Re: Killing a process that won't die

From: "Josh Bressers" <josh bress net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Killing a process that won't die
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:10:38 -0400 (EDT)

> 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?

'kill -9 xxxx'  should do the trick.  Use it sparingly though.

-- 
     JB

References:
- Killing a process that won't die
  - From: John Nichel

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