how to kill a process

[embassy]

I am at owrk and I have ssh'd to my linux box using a app called putty. I want to kill a process off but I do not no what the command is.


Thanks

[wallace]

man kill

and for looking the pid of the process you want to kill

ps aux

Happy killing

[andreac]

ps aux | grep <process> to identify the process pid. kill -9 pid to kill it.

[zealot]

first type this command in order to list the processes

ps ax

and then simply use the command

kill "process number"

of course u have to be root to do this...

[Thornblade]

You can get the process id from
% ps -ef | grep <processName"

Then execute:
% kill <processId>

[wallace]

Nice to see so many active people on the forum ! Answers at the speed of light...

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