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ID3 - How to kill a UNIX process
First you have to find the process number.
The example tries to find the process number for a process called sixc
Then try first a soft kill:
If that does not work you can still try a forced kill:
The example tries to find the process number for a process called sixc
surf5:~ % ps -ef | grep sixc opid03 24843 24836 3 09:13:19 ttyp4 0:02 /users/specadm/.//bin/hp10/sixc -t esrf -T esrf opid03 24923 24891 0 09:19:19 ttyp6 0:00 grep sixc
Then try first a soft kill:
surf5:~ % kill 24843
If that does not work you can still try a forced kill:
surf5:~ % kill -9 24843