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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers See if process is running and kill it Post 302279434 by just4fundoit on Thursday 22nd of January 2009 04:42:51 PM
Old 01-22-2009
Try This!
ps -elf|grep -i entourage|awk '{print "kill -9 "$2}' |sh
That should do the trick.
 

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vncserver

VNCSERVER(1)						      General Commands Manual						      VNCSERVER(1)

NAME

       vncserver - start a VNC server application

SYNOPSIS

       vncserver
	      [:number] [-geometry widthxheight] [-depth depth] [-pixelformat rgbNNNbgrNNN] [-name desktop-name] [Xvnc-options...]

       vncserver -kill :number

DESCRIPTION

       Start  (or  stop) a VNC session.  This is a VNC (Virtual Network Computing) server.  With vncserver you can start a computing desktop envi-
       ronment that you wish to be able to use from a different machine.

OPTIONS

       :number
	      The display number to use.  If omitted, the next free display number is used.

       -geometry widthxheight
	      The session is to be of the specified size.

       -depth depth
	      The colour depth of the visual to provide (bits per pixel).

       -pixelformat rgbNNNbgrNNN
	      The colour representation bit allocations to use.

       -name desktop-name
	      The name to give the desktop.

       -kill :number
	      Stop the session running on display number.

SEE ALSO

       vncviewer(1), Xvnc(1), vncpasswd(1), vncconnect(1)

AUTHOR

       AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
       Man page by Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>

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