In this how-to we’ll look at various ways of using the terminal emulator to identify processes and how to kill them. A process can be an application or script running on your Linux machine. Sometimes ...

Terminating processes on Unix systems is not quite an art, but there are sure a lot more options for how to select and terminate Unix processes than there are ways to skin a cat. In this post, we take ...

In the business world, Unix computers are typically used for server applications and high-end graphics workstations, such as those used in creating computer graphics. Even if you're not a system ...

The kill command provides a lot more functionality than just terminating processes. You can use it to send any of more than 60 signals to processes and what happens next depends on the signal, the ...

If you have a process ID but aren't sure whether it's valid, you can use the most unlikely of candidates to test it: the kill command. If you don't see any reference to this on the kill(1) man page, ...

I was watching a divx 5 movie in WMP (version 6.4.09.1109) when my movie froze. After a little while I hit close and got a "not responding" message, so I forced a close. Then I opened the movie again ...

Using Linux, especially as a server, often means dealing with new errors and resolving them. Most of them are easy to fix with just a web search. But some errors may require that you do some digging.

When you close the Firefox Internet browser, you expect the application to stop running completely. Sometimes, though, certain Firefox files continue to run in the background, causing your computer to ...

I'd obviously need to allow users to specify what signal to use in the kill command. Not doing that would be downright incompetent of me, and its just a few extra lines. Also I used pod2usage to print ...