1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

what is the kill command? (1 Reply)

2. Programming

is it possible to implement the kill command using C? (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, What is difference between kill & kill -9 command? Thanks & regards, Sonali (4 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Sorry, posted the question in other forum. (0 Replies)

5. Linux

I want to Kill a process without using kill command as i don't have privileges to kill the process. I know the pid and i am using Linux 2.6.9 OS. (6 Replies)

6. Solaris

I am running Solaris 9. I have a problem with kill command. I'm sort of teaching myself so this might be a really stupid thing. I logged in as a normal user, lets say ABC, and then did "su" to root. After becoming root, I tried to kill the process started by ABC by saying kill -9 "pid of ABC" ... (3 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Good way to kill the process, if the process having it's child (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello, can anyone help me with a script that checks the status of processes and "kills" the process that's hanging? I mean I'm aware of the commands but I'm confused on how to put them all together... thanks! :) (4 Replies)

9. Linux

Hi can someone tell me what does kill -3 processid does? kill -3 PID Would it create a heapdump? If not , can you tell me how I can create a heapdump of a process in linux? Or heapdump related to java processes only ? (5 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

what is the difference between kill 5 and kill %5? the first one is to kill a process with PID 5 but what does the % mean in the second one? (3 Replies)