[wplug] NOHUP question

[Vanco, Donald]

Mark Allen Adams, Jr. wrote:
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> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 20:13, Randy Kosarik wrote:
>> Can you kill a process that has been initiated with NOHUP?
>> 
>> ex:
>> nohup cp ./* ../newfolder &
> 
> Well, I tested this using the 'sleep' command (I have precious disc
> space, and 'cp' could have been nefarious), but the following should
> work: 
> 
> 	$ nohup sleep 600 &
> 	nohup: appending output to `nohup.out'
> 
> Okay, nohup has sleep running.  Now figure out what process it's
> running as:
> 
> 	$ ps -x | grep sleep
> 	27256 pts/1    SN     0:00 sleep 600
> 	27260 pts/1    S      0:00 grep sleep
> 
> 27256.  Kill it:
> 
> 	$ kill -9 27256
> 
> That should work.  If you're in X, a graphical process manager like
> 'kpm' should work too.  Just scan the list for the process and kill
> it. 
	I was under the impression that "-9" killed anything (and hopefully
it's children), regardless of it's "initiation" state - is that not the
case??
Don