LXer: How to kill a process in Linux - kill, killall, pkill, xkill

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LXer: How to kill a process in Linux - kill, killall, pkill, xkill

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04-02-2013, 12:01 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,802 Rep:	LXer: How to kill a process in Linux - kill, killall, pkill, xkill Published at LXer: When Linux is usually stable, sometimes a process just wants to mess up and hangs around unwelcomely. It just ignores your request to close up. And here are the 4 killer (literally) commands you can use to show who is the real boss when the aforementioned case happens: Read More...

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