Re: Killing sleeping proceses

[Oliver Immich <steadyproc myokay net>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 08:47:34AM +0200, Tomas Tikovsky wrote:
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> Hi
> This is output of ps
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> 769 ?        S      0:00 xterm
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> after entring kill 769 nothing happens. How can i get rid of those proceses whithout rebooting?
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> Thanks 
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> Tom


As there is a variety of signals to handle processes - simply#
try kill -9 instead.

Oliver
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