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How to kill a process in BSD.
Posted by Mike C. on 11 September 2009 11:58 PM
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To kill a process you must first know to PID number. To find this out you will type the following: # ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 23 0.0 0.0 212 68 ?? Is 18Mar06 0:00.00 adjkerntz -i root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 0:26.34 (vnlru) root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 73:36.77 (syncer) root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 0:26.60 (bufdaemon) root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 0:12.62 (pagedaemon) root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DL 18Mar06 0:00.00 (taskqueue) root 1 0.0 0.0 556 212 ?? SLs 18Mar06 0:40.47 /sbin/init -- root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DLs 18Mar06 0:00.00 (swapper) user1 42293 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z Sun12AM 0:00.00 (psybnc) user1 42294 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z Sun12AM 0:00.00 (psybnc) # kill -s 42293 This shows how to first find the PID number and then how to kill is. If kill -s doesn't work you can always try: # kill -9 42293 If you want to kill all processes named "psybnc" on the system you can type: # killall psybnc BE CAREFUL with the killall function because you might mistype and kill something you don't want to kill. | |
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