[SLUG] Dead process

[Jamie Adams]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:26:52 +0000, Stephen O'Neill
<soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >In the terminal from which I ran this process, CtrlC didn't work, but
> >CtrlZ did.
> >
> >
> Hmmm... ok, well ctrl-c would usually stop the process. Ctrl Z puts it
> in the background.
> 
> >Now I can see there's one stopped job.
> >
> >kill 1 says operation not permitted
> >
> >Exit says there are stopped jobs.
> >
> It may be that the ctrl-c attempted to kill the process so the kernel
> was having a think about that, you then put it in the background but it
> was going to try to kill it for you from the ctrl-c and so won't let you
> kill it again...

How about using 'top' to find out what the process is called, then
'killall [appname]' to kill it off?

Jamie