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Mon, 04/26/2010 - 18:44
Bill Haynes
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I've been doing sysadmin work locally and for others for a very long time, never, until today at least, have I ran into an issue where "killall $ApplicationName" hasn't worked. I've been playing with the Pidgin Instant Messenger, combining it with the 'torsocks' and liking it so far. I was attempting an image transfer and it locked up, I tried using...

I've been doing sysadmin work locally and for others for a very long time, never, until today at least, have I ran into an issue where "killall $ApplicationName" hasn't worked. I've been playing with the Pidgin Instant Messenger, combining it with the 'torsocks' and liking it so far. I was attempting an image transfer and it locked up, I tried using...

root@r0ckb0x#killall pidgin 
...Which has always worked fine. I even tried using 'xkill' and then clicking on the window, which has also always worked. This time was different, it was like nothing would take it down. After a few tries at google, an alternate command which seemed to be the defacto ruler worked great:
root@r0ckb0x#kill -9 <proccessid>
So if you ever have any issues with an application that you can't terminate use kill -9 <processid>.

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