[TriLUG] Can't kill driftnet

Randy Barlow randy at electronsweatshop.com
Tue Feb 10 22:58:08 EST 2009


On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:45:34 -0500, Ivan Panarusky
<panaruskyi at gmail.com> declared:
> That did the trick, but why didn't anything else work?

Sometimes you need to tell the kill command what signal to send.  By
default, it sends the same quit signal that control-c does (I think...
someone confirm/deny?)  A guaranteed kill is something like:

kill -s KILL <pid>

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