[wplug] killing process that will not die

[Henry Umansky]

Try the following command:

ps -ef | grep mozilla | killall -9

--On Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:29 AM -0400 John Harrold 
<jmh17+ at pitt.edu> wrote:r

> so my advisor called me into his office this morning and asked me why
> mozilla wouldn't die.  we tried:
>
> kill -9 pid
> killall mozilla-bin
>
> which failed.  since the parent process was init, i thought killing parent
> would be a bad idea. the process wasn't a zombie, at least according to
> top, so i don't really know our attempts to kill the processes failed. can
> anyone else provide some information?
>
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Henry Umansky
University of Pittsburgh
Computing Services and Systems Development
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