On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:25:17 -0400 "Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden at gmail.com> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > 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 You sir, are totally correct, I was thinking kill while reading TERM. I was going to go back and correct this, but saw it was already stated. So, yah. Don't run around killing processes like that. I swear I'm not as dippy as I sound lol Sincerely, Alex White -- ethericalzen at gmail.com Life is a prison, death is a release