On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:54, Alex <ethericalzen at 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