Comments on: Linux Process Management: Command Line

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:55:23 +0000

I realize that this was a while ago, but there are better ways. To avoid having grep appear in your example, use a semantically null modifier:
[jlwallen ~]$ ps aux|grep firefox

As for killall, it has a very different meaning on Solaris. This invited a better solution and, sure enough, one now exists. Instead of killall, use pkill. While pkill has some new options, that’s not why it should replace killall; pkill has a sibling, pgrep, and pgrep is awesome.

Sometimes trying to kill a certain browser/platform made by Mozilla is like playing whack-a-mole. In Debian at least, that browser likes to hide processes under different names. So, when I need to kill it I run pgrep first to see what name it’s hiding under and make sure that there won’t be any collateral damage:
[jlwallen ~]$ pgrep -l fox; pgrep -l icew; pgrep -l xul; pgrep -l moz

By: nitesh

nitesh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:25:33 +0000

thanks fror informations

By: gB

gB — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:09:42 +0000

Don’t know if it’s universal, but I use ps -A to get a listing of all PID’s and their corresponding names. Just an alternative….

By: jack

jack — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:59:41 +0000

Ctl-Alt-Esc only works in KDE.

and you are right, you can use XKill but it’s always been, in my opinion, safer to use the command. you accidentally click the xkill cursor on your root window and your root window could bonk out or X could restart.

By: hybrid-kernel

hybrid-kernel — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:24:45 +0000

Why not mention (h)top as well? Very useful tools they are.

@abhijit: Is this a gnome only thing? I don’t have it in openbox. If anything, I just ‘alt+f2′ and ‘xkill’ and then click window. (Too lazy to bind a key-combo)

By: abhijit

abhijit — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:59:02 +0000

In case a window stops responding, you can also press Alt+Ctrl+Esc and then click on the application window. This kills the application without having to go to another terminal