[TriLUG] Can't kill driftnet

[Craig Taylor]

 kill -9 bad_idea
bash: kill: bad_idea: arguments must be process or job IDs

Doesn't work for me...

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:

> "kill -9" is also handy for defeating enemies or unwanted guests.
> I use it in meetings all the time: "kill -9 bad_idea"; "kill -9 bob".
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Maxwell Spangler
> <maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 22:45 -0500, Ivan Panarusky wrote:
> >
> >> For some reason, I can't stop the program dritnet. I tried $sudo
> > killall driftnet, #killall driftnet, and even the system monitor. (it
> > crashed when I tied to kill it
> >
> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Paul G. Szabady <paul at thyservice.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > How about killing the process id?
> >> >
> >> > $ ps auwx | grep driftnet | cut -d" " -f3
> >> >
> >> > Then kill the process id that's returned.  ie:
> >> >
> >> > $ kill -15 1234
> >> > or
> >> > $ kill -9 1234
> >
> >> That did the trick, but why didn't anything else work?
> >
> > When you originally did 'kill driftnet' the 'TERM' signal was sent.
> > Sometimes programs can't receive this signal and act upon this signal
> > due to their status so they just sit there trying to do something like
> > receive data from a network or read from a device thats gone missing.
> >
> > Manually specifying a harsher signal like -9 will kill most things.  If
> > you can't kill it with 9, you have to kill things around it and hope
> > something lets go, and otherwise reboot.
> >
> > Occasionally I find that GNOME's nautilus goes all wanky on me if I work
> > with a lot of photos or similar conditions where it likes to eat up
> > memory.  A quick shell and 'kill -1 nautilus' reboots it and frees up
> > all that lost memory.
> >
> > man kill
> > man -S 7 signal
> >
> > hth.
> > --
> > Maxwell Spangler
> > Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
> >
> >
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