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04-10-2002

sskb

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thanks mk for the detailed info.. but well, i think we are pulling out somewhere else!

let me explain once again.

i have invoked some 'netscape' (not a single one.. more) for example. I did not use any terminal window to invoke this but a desktop action. fine i know the process id.
when i need to kill that .. i can use

ps -u $LOGNAME|grep netscape

i get like this

ps -u $LOGNAME | grep netscape
8018 ? 0:00 netscape
8090 ? 0:00 netscape
8089 ? 0:17 netscape
8017 ? 0:13 netscape

in these process ids.. i need to kill only one netscape.. I can identify the window.. but not the process id corresponding to that.

adding more info...
i can do this with X-Kill... i can invoke "xkill" and click that window and it dies.. but when my system hangs because of that particular 'netscape'
i can not access "xkill", so i do a remote login and i want to kill only that process..

in this case, is there a solution?

Thanks,
sskb

sskb

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killall

killall(1M)															       killall(1M)

NAME

       killall - kill all active processes

SYNOPSIS

       [signal]

DESCRIPTION

       is a procedure used by to kill all active processes not directly related to the shutdown procedure.

       is chiefly used to terminate all processes with open files so that the mounted file systems are no longer busy and can be unmounted.  sends
       the specified signal to all user processes in the system, with the following exceptions:

	      the process;

	      all processes (including background processes) associated with the terminal from which was invoked;

	      any process, if owned by

	      any process, if owned by

	      any process;

	      any process;

	      any process.

       obtains its process information from and therefore may not be able to perfectly identify which processes to signal (see ps(1)).

       If no signal is specified, a default of (kill) is used.

       is invoked automatically by The use of is recommended over using by itself (see shutdown(1M)).

FILES

SEE ALSO

       fuser(1M), kill(1), ps(1), shutdown(1M), signal(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																       killall(1M)