[wplug] Killing processes

[Lance Tost]

Why not just use "killall evolution"?  Be careful though, it has other 
meanings on other OS's.

Linux:
NAME
       killall - kill processes by name

Solaris:
NAME
     killall - kill all active processes


On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Andreas Rindler wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:08:07 -0500
> From: Andreas Rindler <arindler at cmu.edu>
> Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] Killing processes
> 
> Hey,
> I am having trouble restarting Evolution after my network connection has
> either changed or was terminated. It leaves two process running and I
> can't restart Evolution. My solution so far was to kill these processes
> which lets me restart it. 
> 
> I am trying to automate this, but I can't quite get the syntax to work:
> 
> ps aux | grep evolutio n| awk '{print$2}'    
> 
> #gives me all processes that have evolution in the name
> 
> ps aux | grep evolution | awk '{print$2}' | kill
> 
> #and then the idea was to just pipe it to kill, but it doesn't work 
> #also, the third process is the grep command itself, how do i skip that
> one??
> 
> I would be grateful for any ideas...
> 
> thanks,
> andi
> 
> 
> 
> 
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