[TriLUG] silly kill question

[Brian Henning]

Also, note that 'ps' only shows processes running for the current user.  Use
'ps -e' to show ALL processes.  You'll likely have to pipe it through less
if it's a very heavily loaded system.

There are also two separate signals often used to end processes, SIGKILL
(-9) and SIGTERM (-15).  Try both, like this:

kill -9 _pid_
kill -15 _pid_
or
killall -9 _process_name_
killall -15 _process_name_

I've often seen the default signal (I forget which it is...  I never depend
on it anymore) fail to terminate a misbehaving process.

Hope this is helpful.

~Brian

linux r wrote:

>[linuxr at 150 home]# yum install opera
>Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
>[linuxr at 150 home]# ps
>  PID TTY          TIME CMD
>13655 pts/1    00:00:00 bash
>13700 pts/1    00:00:00 ps
>[linuxr at 150 home]# killall yum
>[linuxr at 150 home]# yum install opera
>Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.
>[linuxr at 150 home]#
>
>1.  What am I doing wrong here and how do I get rid of whatever is running?
>
>2.  How do I tell when I have a 'lock' running, if it doesn't show up
>with ps?  Isn't ps the list of ALL processes that are running?  Is
>there something better than ps to use?
>
>3.  How do I 'kill' ?  I can't see the process.  Also in the past when
>I have tried 'kill 8232' or whatever PID it was, it didn't work.  That
>used to work for me in a unix distro.  Not sure what has changed but
>the man pages haven't clarified it either.  So how do I kill a running
>process correctly in FC
>
>Thanks in advance
>Marc
>
>
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