15 Jul
2008
15 Jul
'08
10:25 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:54, Alex ethericalzen@gmail.com wrote:
If you want to terminate the process you can find the PID via 'ps aux' and issue the command 'kill -9 pidofprocess'. If you know the name of the process you may use 'killall -9 processname'.
Why the hell -9?
TERM is -15 and HUP is -1 (but I would stick to the names).
Using -9 is almost always the wrong answer. It's a last resort when everything else failed, and it should be reserved for such.
One should never use this command on a day-to-day basis, much less teach it or suggest it in a mailing list like this one.
Filipe