Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello,
I am new to unix scripts and have been experimenting with do-while structure. I have run into a problem.
my script is,
---
while true
do
./redir --lport=55083 --caddr=14.121.119.21 --cport=55083 2>&1 >> /tmp/out.txt
echo "Restarting `date`"
done
---
As you can see, i didnt handle the exit/break and ran the script!

now the "redir" keeps spawning itself and I want it to stop. I did close the window, from where i ran the script and also killed the process.
now when I do "ps -eaf" it shows me,

" dcasey 2373 1 0 06:22:13 ? 0:00 ./redir --lport=55083 --caddr=14.121.119.21 --cport=55083"

How do I stop this script? I do have sudo permission on the box..

please help..!

Code:

kill -9 <process id>

In your case it would be

Code:

kill -9 2373

kill -9 is a forceful killing of the process and should be avoided.

Code:

man kill

will tell you how to do it.

Thanks ! "kill -9" did the job