Comments on: kill stubborn processes http://desk.stinkpot.org:8080/tricks/index.php/2006/01/kill-stubborn-processes/ tricks! Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:46:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: D http://desk.stinkpot.org:8080/tricks/index.php/2006/01/kill-stubborn-processes/comment-page-1/#comment-6597 D Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:08:15 +0000 http://stinkpot.afraid.org:8080/tricks/?p=7#comment-6597 Note that -9 is a violent kill to processes. It does not allow them to properly clean up after themselves. It should only be used as a last ditch effort to kill a process. May want to consider making a script that uses somehow ps -U username then kill pid after matching the pid to the desired thing to kill.... but maybe the grepping and all that does just this??? so maybe the caution is to try the command above with just kill and not the -9 Note that -9 is a violent kill to processes. It does not allow them to properly clean up after themselves. It should only be used as a last ditch effort to kill a process.

May want to consider making a script that uses somehow

ps -U username
then kill pid after matching the pid to the desired thing to kill….
but maybe the grepping and all that does just this??? so maybe
the caution is to try the command above with just kill and not the -9

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