[TriLUG] Can't kill driftnet

Ivan Panarusky panaruskyi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 23:08:43 EST 2009


That may explain it as I could kill it with ctrl+c.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Randy Barlow
<randy at electronsweatshop.com>wrote:

> 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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